New Arrivals
Monk's Blues
Monk’s Blues is an album by Thelonious Monk, accompanied by a big band arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson. Produced by Teo Macero, the album was recorded in Los Angeles by Monk‘s working quartet augmented by a group of top Hollywood studio musicians. The Monk Quartet included Monk on the piano, Charlie Rouse on Tenor Saxophone, Larry Gales on Bass and Ben Riley on the Drums. Additional musicians a.o. Tom Scott, Buddy Collette, Bobby Bryant and Conte Candoli. Monk’s Blues is available as a l…
Masters of All This Hell
*300 copies limited edition* Shit and Shine is back with a brand new, all killer no filler electronic LP, consecrating Craig Clouse’s signature pataphysical, unapologetically free approach to musical composition. Masters Of All This Hell combines surreal collages with an idiosyncratic sense of beat making, perfecting $&$’s signature blend into downright sonic thrills.
Satire Of Desire
*100 copies limited edition* Intoxicated to introduce you Antibody fiends to this new opus by Berlin based Japanese artist Tot Onyx (Tommi Tokyo, formerly of group A). Satire of Desire is her second solo album to date. Here, performance and sound art meet post-industrial deconstructivism. It’s radical, ferocious, wonderfully free and powerful. Written under the covid-19 pandemic, "Satire of Desire" is her radical criticism on the man-made catastrophe and sonic response to the cacotopic world tha…
Rbia Harsha Cinta
*100 copies limited edition* Rbia Harsha Cinta is a dark and experimental reworking of Aubry's recent film on seaweed and pollution in Morocco (Atlantic Ragagar 2022). The film's dreadful atmosphere of environmental devastation is transposed into a haunting soundscape of analog textures and naked rhythms. With its title referring to endangered seaweed species, Rbia Harsha Cinta comprises eight tracks that pulse and breathe with a post-natural intensity.
YRLNG is a new project by Gilles Aubry ded…
All The Past Horsed Lights
We’re thrilled to announce our latest cassette release, emerging from the unique and beautiful underground Brussels scene. Introducing Näcken du Naon, an entrancing duo featuring sound activist Eric Desjeux (Tzii) and Alban Mercier (Officium). Together, they conjure haunting aural hymns through twisted vocals, distorted synths, and sharp, nagging beats. Their soundscapes trigger the listener's imagination, sparking visionary experiences and alterations of consciousness.
For those attuned to the…
Governed By Decay
*2024 stock. 200 copies limited edition* "If you are seeking to learn how the manipulation of the sparsest sounds can be formed into something entirely engaging, or to witness how true musical artists can compose fully-realized works without once leaning on the riff-and-hook formula, perhaps you are prepared for Governed By Decay. As a bonus, those who purchase the vinyl release will also receive a nearly 30-minute continuation of the record on a CD that will not be available individually otherw…
Escaper
*200 coipes limited edition* Tomas Järmyr & Dirk Serries’ The Void of Expansion is celebrating their 10th anniversary this year with a new album called Escaper on Dunk! Records and a tour they just did throughout Belgium, Poland, Germany, and Norway (Oslo). This 3rd studio album departs gently from their predecessor Governed by Decay with a more direct approach in building up the guitar soundscapes and the interaction with the majestic and versatile drumming of Tomas Järmyr. Still very expansi…
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…
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…