New Arrivals
Lone
“Lone is about loneliness and hidden places. It’s been my shelter for the last three years. It’s a work full of internalized questions. Am I still who I was before? Do I have the same energy and ambitions? Is this all still really me? A sense of nostalgia permeates through all its tracks, though each one has a different root. I’ve always felt connected to both tribal and dark atmospheres, and cinematic moods as well. The beautiful dualism with CTM’s cello, and the romantic guitar featured by Car…
Medium Ambient Collection 2022 Black
Medium Ambient Collection 2022 is the first highly acclaimed ambient compilation on the Medium label, run by electronic musician/producer Masanori Nozawa. The "black" version starts with Japan's leading sound artist Chihei Hatakeyama, followed by Endurance from Muzan Editions, Takuya Yamashita, Minguss, AcidGelge (909state), Molelule Plane, miffrino, and many other musicians! Newly re-mastered for vinyl, this is a masterpiece of a gem of a disc that deserves to be called the 2020s version of "Ka…
Medium Ambient Collection 2022 White
Medium Ambient Collection 2022 is the first highly acclaimed ambient compilation on the Medium label, run by electronic musician/producer Masanori Nozawa. The "White" version includes tracks from well-known artists such as H.Takahashi (Unknown Me, Kankyo Records), Hakobune, and Enitokwa, as well as Daisuke Matsuzaka, who runs the ambient festival Off-Tone (also in charge of mastering), Pollypraha, who has released music on 12k, and lyricist Yumi Iwaki. Newly re-mastered for vinyl, this is a mast…
Koh Maiton
Japanese Ambient / New Age / Left-Field. For fans of Hiroshi Yoshimura, Midori Takada. The first vinyl reissue of Hiroki Ishiguro's masterpiece "Koh Maiton", which has been gaining attention from diggers and collectors in recent years after being featured on the groundbreaking compilation album "Heisei no Oto: Japanese Left-Field Pop From the CD Age (1989-1996)" from one of the most renowned label "Music From Memory". Hiroki Ishiguro is a Tokyo-based pianist, synthesizer player, and composer bor…
Music for "Cyber Café"
In 1991, Yuji Takahashi and Mamoru Fujieda collaborated in staging a sound installation at the Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo, making extensive use of the new artistic possibilities provided by the advent of personal computers. In this installation, a culmination of their investigations into the aesthetic use of new technology, these two renowned leaders of Japanese experimental music used sensors and transducers on objects and in the space itself, via MIDI conversion, to trigger pianos, synthesiz…
京大西部講堂 1983.9.17 Live
Sta-Kaidan was a miraculous collaboration band formed by Michiro Endo of The Stalin and Jojo Hiroshige of Hijokaidan, which became the origin of the later "Kaidan Collaboration" series, such as SOB-Kaidan with SxOxB, Togawa-Kaidan with Jun Togawa etc. Recorded at the Kyoto University in September 1983 by one of audience, this legendary live recording in chaos and violent paformance, which had been out of print for many years after being released as a CD in 2014 to commemorate the 35th anniversar…
Archipels
*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its twenty-fifth release »Saunders, Boucourechliev, Clarke, Riehm: Archipels« featuring world premiere recordings by Nicolas Hodges (piano). The album combines new works for piano by Rebecca Saunders, James Clarke and Rolf Riehm with three different interpretations of André Boucourechliev’s open form composition Archipel 5d from 1970. In addition to the recordings produced by the SWR, it also contains a 48-page bilingual booklet (EN, DE) with articles by Ni…
Gérard Grisey: Dérives
*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its twenty-fourth release »Gérard Grisey: Dérives« featuring recordings by the WDR Sinfonieorchester, Katrien Baerts (soprano), Kora Pavelić (mezzo-soprano), Sylvain Cambreling and Emilio Pomàrico (conductors). The album includes Gérard Grisey’s key works Dérives (1973-1974) and L’icône paradoxale (1992-1994) as well as the world premiere recording of Mégalithes (1969). In addition to the recordings produced by the WDR, it also contains a 64-page trilingual…
Brigitta Muntendorf: Trilogie
*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its twenty-second release »Brigitta Muntendorf: Trilogie« featuring world premiere recordings by the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo. The album includes both the Trilogie für zwei Flügel, produced by the WDR, and the respective films of Theater des Nachhalls, a concert installation for multichannel video and audio. In addition to the recordings and the films, the set also contains a 52-page bilingual booklet (EN, DE) with articles by Dirk Wieschollek and an interv…
Hugues Dufourt, ensemble recherche, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Ensemble Nikel, Remix Ensemble, Yaron Deutsch, Nicolas Hodges
Hugues Dufourt: Surgir bastille musique presents its twenty-seventh release »Hugues Dufourt: Surgir« featuring world premiere recordings by ensemble recherche, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Ensemble Nikel, Remix Ensemble, Yaron Deutsch (electric guitar) and Nicolas Hodges (piano). Produced by the WDR, the recordings comprise Dufourt’s complete Tiepolo cycle (2004-2016), selected works for orchestra and piano (1980-2012) as well as all compositions for and with electric guitar (1986-2022). Additionally, the box set includes a…
A Fistful of Dollars / Per un Pugno di Dollari
2024 repress. "Red canyon" colored vinyl edition. Year 1964. Almost out of nowhere, a half-known and little-regarded director like Sergio Leone reinterprets a film by Akira Kurosawa in a western key and, putting together all the right pieces that contribute to the making of a film, with a pinch of intuition establishes new rules for the 'spaghetti western' genre, starting an endless series of imitations. "For a Fistful of Dollars" would not have the same impact without the inimitable music by En…
Live In London
2024 repress. Weather Report’s long and illustrious career had many twists, turns and revelations. Live In London draws on the best moments of performances delivered at the Hammersmith Odeon in June 1983, with former Chic percussionist Jose Rossy, plus a take of ‘Corner Pocket’ as played at the Dominion Theatre one year later with Mino Cinelu. Mainstay Joe Zawinul mans the ship alongside saxophonist Wayne Shorter, this edition of WR driven by the frantic beats of Omar Hakim and the bass of Victo…
Borowski, Holz, Keller: Klangrede
*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its fourth release »Borowski, Holz, Keller: Klangrede« featuring world premiere recordings by the Zafraan Ensemble and Titus Engel (conductor). Produced by the SWR at the Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, the recordings comprise two works each by Johannes Boris Borowski, Eres Holz and Stefan Keller. The set also contains a 56-page bilingual booklet (EN, DE) with articles by Clemens Hund-Göschel, Eckhard Weber and an interview with the Zafraan Ensemble, as well as four c…
Luciano Berio: Chemins
*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its eleventh release »Luciano Berio: Chemins« featuring the WDR Symphony Orchestra and soloists Andreas Mildner, Christophe Desjardins, Andreas Langenbuch, Maarten Dekkers, Pablo Márquez, Martin Griebl and Lutz Koppetsch, and conductors Peter Eötvös, Emilio Pomàrico, Mariano Chiacchiarini, Manuel Nawri, Bas Wiegers, Jean-Michaël Lavoie and Brad Lubman. In addition to the recordings produced by the WDR, this first complete box set of Berio’s Chemins includes…
Pierre Boulez: Constellation-Miroir
*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its sixteenth release »Pierre Boulez: Constellation-Miroir«, the first complete recording of Boulez’s piano works featuring Michael Wendeberg and Nicolas Hodges. Recorded at the Pierre Boulez Saal in co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the box set also includes world premiere recordings of movements from the First and Third Sonata and two versions of Chapitre II from Structures II (all works performed by Wendeberg, joined by Hodges for Structures I &…
Zafraan Ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
Christophe Bertrand: Vertigo*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its fourteenth release »Christophe Bertrand: Vertigo« featuring world premiere recordings by the Zafraan Ensemble, KNM Berlin, WDR Sinfonieorchester, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, with conductors Premil Petrović, Victor Aviat, Brad Lubman, Peter Rundel, Baldur Brönnimann and Emilio Pomàrico. This box set of recordings produced by the WDR, the first complete recording of Bertrand’s instrumental works, also includes an 80-page trilingual booklet (EN, FR, DE) with…
Johannes Schöllhorn: Sérigraphies
*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its twentieth release »Johannes Schöllhorn: Sérigraphies« featuring world premiere recordings by the Zafraan Ensemble, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, DSO Berlin and conductors Manuel Nawri, Jean-Michaël Lavoie, Baldur Brönnimann and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. It includes a multi-faceted selection of Schöllhorn’s works, from original compositions to arrangements of works by Purcell, Bach, Fauré or Satie. In addition to the recordings pr…
Besilvering - Solo, Duo And Ensemble Works
*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its nineteenth release »Luke Bedford: Besilvering« featuring world premiere recordings by the Holst-Sinfonietta and Klaus Simon (conductor). The album includes a selection of Bedford’s instrumental works from 2002 to 2019, from solos to a wide variety of chamber line-ups to an ensemble piece for ten players. In addition to the recordings produced by the SWR, it also contains a 48-page bilingual booklet (EN, DE) with articles by Eckhard Weber, an interview w…
Hope Is The Sister Of Despair
2024 repress. In 2013, Niko Tzoumanis released ‘Hope Is The Sister Of Despair’ on limited CD, issued here on vinyl (2xLP) with 4 previously unreleased tracks. The album was made following the end of a relationship and taps into a rich vein of sequencer romanticism, from Tangerine Dream-obsessed-‘Berlin School’ daydreamers to the whole nebula of music inspired by Warp’s Artificial Intelligence series.
It also looks forward, prefiguring the return today, in troubled times, to the comforting inner…