New Arrivals
Lauschgut. Works for (Inside) Piano (1989–2022)
“In art, you can have a look at the world as the world wouldn’t see itself. I find that incredibly exciting,” says Charlotte Seither, presenting ten outstanding works for piano written between 1989 and 2022 – over a period of 33 years. All of these works on make use of playing techniques in which the grand piano is not structurally altered. The sounds are therefore only created in the act of playing and make the individual work a risky event. Some pieces were created in closer succession to each…
Born In Waves
“Born in Waves is Estonian composer Elis Hallik’s first album, a gateway into the sounds and thoughts of an original artist. The album mainly features chamber compositions that represent important ideas from her oeuvre over the past decade. A versatile soundscape unravels before the listener through nine pieces, shaped by composition studies in Estonia and France, and in particular by her contact with the expressive means of spectral and electronic music. At the heart of her musical thought are …
Works for Amplified Piano(s)
With this album, Yoshiko Shimizu presents a second outstanding recording of works for amplified piano(s) by American composer George Crumb, being the only pianist who has created ‘solo’ realizations of his compositions Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV), Zeitgeist and Otherworldly Resonances. George Crumb praised her superb 2018 Kairos release (0015029KAI), declaring, “I consider her to be one of my very finest interpreters. Bravissima!”
Propagation of Uncertainty
"Olivier Messiaen once said that all you need to make music is a note and silence. For the composer Arash Yazdani, born in 1985 and raised in Isfahan, Iran (and now based in Tallinn, Estonia), a slightly adapted adage applies: All you need to make music is two frequencies – though Yazdani has a clear preference for notes extremely close in pitch. His music is full of tightly coiled beatings, both stationary and set in motion. These beatings function like black holes in his works, drawing other s…
Genius Loci
*Limited Edition* Here we have two saxophone masters questioning space through sound and movement, and working in the most inspirational place. "Locus" Puget-ville is a small village in the south France countryside, among vineyards and woods. It's also the place where Barre Phillips spent the most part of his life. And It's the place where the Cepi organization led by him and some brave comrades was born and organized lot of meetings on the topic of mutlidisciplinary improvisation. Torto Edition…
Losing your bearings in the middle of the day
*Limited Edition* A genuine diary of simple music elements, a minimalistic painting, but then you drop the paint can. Colors start to melt and shapes lose their boundaries, you fight to maintain focus on a single element but your eyes (ears) have lost their bearings. Beginnings that seem to end, loops that open up to make room for new inner paths. Sounds that resurface in a sonic illusion. "Losing your bearings in the middle of the day" is 40’ suite that was played with a sense of bewilderment, …
Quasi Vicino
Limited Edition Maurizio and Edo confirm their long time presence in Genoa's underground scene, pushing their exploration across boundaries: they're more than a band, considering the incredibly long, prolific and weird creativity characterizing St.ride aesthetics. This new artifact is more comforting and welcoming than their previous ones, but still keeping that tension and unbalance we expect. It's a free ride, with open mind and no maps to refer to. Subtle voices, square waves, plucked strings…
Uragano
Ramble and Torto Editions (Italy) are thrilled to be co- leasing Uragano by Perforto - a string duo for electric guitar and grand prepared piano (wood, metal, paper and other materials).
Praznina / Emptiness
*150 copies limited edition* Emptiness is the second solo record by multi-instrumentalist Iztok Koren, a member of the bands Širom, Škm banda and Hexenbrutal. A result of an outpouring of pent-up creative energy, the album came about after a last-minute force majeure cancellation of a Širom trip to Sarajevo, where the band was to make music for the theatre show Bordel Eden by director Mirjana Medojević. The musician decided to channel his blocked creative flow into new solo material and ended up…
All The Way Down
Limited Edition "Snapshots, pictures, glimpses of life and notes on a crumpled sheet. Framing memories to keep them, mostly remembering those that are less important. Unconscious moments, instants that didn't have attention that unexpectedly resurface in a recurring dream. Some faces transfigure, other images lose definition, leave the frame for a few seconds and lean on a desk covered with notes and drafts. Matteo and Stefano offer a really personal and felt contribution to Torto Editions and R…
Microstorie
*Limited Edition* Far from the brightest spots in the hype system, hailing from the western genovese area, St.Ride is an eclectic duo, experimenting obscure, disturbing and twisted sides of electronic/ambient music since 2001.There's an irrational stream of consciousness, a free flow between the acid beats and the cold and distant synth pads, and actually we can say that the band composed by Maurizio Gusmerini and Edo Grandi has many ways and languages to underline the disintegration of the song…
S/t
*Limited Edition* This is the first full-length by the genovese based experimental collective TRÓNCO. Originally live recorded in studio during the summer of 2020, the album has been mixed by Tommaso Rolando and mastered by Domiziano Maselli. It’s a collection of seven pieces that are somehow a multidimensional expansion of the same seed, placed in the ground in an ageless period: a trans-genre and trans-geographic recklessness growth by a wild resonance moving through the body as a spiraloid ar…
Duemiladiciotto
*Handmade Limited Edition* Davide Merlino and Tommaso Rolando have a common interest in improvisation, crazy music and sound manipulation. They also curate releases with Floating Forest and Torto Editions.
Nude, Unpleasant or Both
*20 copies limited edition* Off-set printed covers in zipper bags, with stapled info card. Dubbed on red cassettes. Limited to 20 copies.
Strains from a Room
*20 copies limited edition* Xeroxed print on orange paper. Transparent cassettes. Limited to 20 copies. Gloomy lyrics meet delicate melodies and dreamy soundscapes
Der Einsiedler
*50 copies limited edition* Kapsel magazine presents »Der Einsiedler« by Liu Yang from Sichuan and a soundtrack composed by Peking based synthesizer experimentalist Meng Qi. In this story a successful business man encloses himself in a bunker deep under the earth. Disconnected from the world starts a journey that leads him to the end of the universe and beyond. The story is read by Berlin based actor Lukas Hoffmann. You can find the story in the latest issue of Kapsel, published in March at Maro…
Signs and Accuracy
Big Tip! *Limited to 70 hand-numbered copies.* "Signs and Accuracy" is the first collaborative work between Jon Wesseltoft and Niklas Adam and the austere title sets the mood from the start. The composition process as well as the interaction between the two artists, constitutes something new for both of them. The signs possess accuracy; they are a unified whole, materialized and executed within a singular and unexplored surrounding space. "Signs and Accuracy", out now on Coherent States, is musi…
The Secret of Futility
**Edition of 50** Bruce Gilbert live recording from solo performance during “The Secret of Futility” event at Kunstverein München, 2022. Produced in a limited numbered edition of 50 copies only
ჯაზზ
*20 copies ultra limited edition* Recorded at Jazz Union Tbilisi late spring and early summer 2023. Mixed by Mårble at Marble house studio. Mårble - drums, modular fx. Dolphin Hospital - grand piano, modular fx. Each copy designed differently containing an all-unique collage.
I want / I have to share my life with you
*40 copies ultra limited edition* Eight-channel sound installation. Voice, three machine learning algorithms. In 2020 with my colleagues we’ve started EOLA - an Experimental Opera Laboratory where we use different machine learning algorithms and hours of my voice data to create a new experimental opera.This fact made me think not only about future of music in general but particularly how the relationships between artist and instrument going to develop. In ancient times humans used to inspirit an…