Best of 2014
Musiques concretes 1970-71
Brocoli is pleased to announce the release of seven early works by Michel Chion, the celebrated musique concrète composer. Composed before he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in 1971 his characteristic style and sounds are already …
Opened, but hardly touched
Peter Brötzmann, alto, tenor & baritone saxophone, e-flat clarinet, tarogato. Harry Miller, double bass. Louis Moholo, drums. On Opened, But Hardly Touched, the Brötzmann-Miller-Moholo combination, displays the most accessible approach of the live tr…
Even Clean Hands Damage The Work
Mindblowing!!!!!! Even Clean Hands Damage the Work is the new LP from UK-based artist John Chantler. Following on from The Luminous Ground, his critically-acclaimed album from 2011, Even Clean Hands Damage the Work sees Chantler delve ever deeper int…
The Wanderer
2018 repress now packaged in a 6 panel digipak with heavy-duty stock and a matte finish. The Wanderer is based on a single modal scale (B C# D D# E F# G#) and rhythmic modes based on a meter consisting of 3/4 and 3/8. Part I, "Song," is intended to e…
Youuu+Mee=Weeee
Youuu + Mee = Weee is the first recorded collaboration between Charlemagne Palestine and Rhys Chatham. And it's precious. Following the musical meetings with Z'ev (Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear, SR340CD/LP), and with Tony Conrad, these new …
Antico Adagio
**Lucky restock, few copies available** Deluxe CD edition containing both albums. Before an aberrant idea of progress and workaholic ethic ludicrously sped up our daily lives, even in the hectic city of Milan it was possible to play slowly with no pr…
Christos Laskaris
Epavlis Pavlakis makes ten audio comments on ten poems of Christos Laskaris. The heartbreaking voice of a deceased poet is presented through the minimal digital sounds of a musician who met the poet through his brother. A linear vivid audio environme…
Continuum Unbound
Michael Pisaro's Continuum Unbound is a three CD box set, featuring three individual as well as linked CD-length pieces, each 72 minutes long. 'Kingsnake Grey' is a field recording of sundown in the Congaree National Park in South Carolina. The beaut…
Palace of Wind
Trance-indulgence! Palace of Wind is the debut full-length release from Travis Laplante's genre-defying tenor saxophone quartet, Battle Trance. Palace of Wind is a piece that not only transcends genres, but also transcends time and space. Existing …
Carnascialia
Special Price. A litlle known but excellent Italian album originally published at the end of the 70s, a few months before Demetrio Stratos’ death, which was honored by the same musicians in the famous concert in his memory at the Parco Lambro in Mila…
Cosmic Love
Good vibrations and resonances are distributed along 9 tracks, which explores worlds of peace. Jungle, abysses, distant stars, every place can be right where express the Cosmic Love. Thanks to the usual blend of traditional and exotic instruments, in…
Choice
Restocked: outstanding reissue, Choice finds Arnold Dreyblatt making his instruments and chosen musicians sing and chime from minimalism to moments of forthright completeness over two sides of vinyl which demand an honest listen and are ultimately…
Star System
The 3-dimensional graphic scores used on the album "Star System" are subsets of the Robin Hayward Tuning Vine, which arose out of a desire to visualise the harmonic space implicit within the microtonal tuba. Each of the balls represent pitches, an…
The prepaid piano & replayed
**Restocked**In line with the prepared works of John Cage, Pekler has also tackled the piano with a modern twist that we could only imagine Cage would delight it. The A side of this long player contains participatory recordings wherein audience membe…
40 Days of Silence
An amazing new composition by the Danish sound explorer Jacob Kirkegaard, a soundtrack for the film of Uzbek director Saodat Ismailova, a journey into silence and its possible inner variations, an intimate and deep sonic journey, that takes us furthe…
Miseri Lares
*2015 small reprint* On his second solo album and debut full-length for PAN, Valerio Tricoli conjures an atmospheric tension that’s deeply unsettling. The horror and the precision he presents hang in the air, like a piercing scream behind soundpro…
ma ta ta bi
Akio Suzuki, analapos, stones, wood pieces, nails, hammer, room echo, bottles, etc. Aki Onda, radios, walkmans, amps, tape echo, cymbals, bottles, etc. Initially a 3 hours long performance recorded on June 2013 in an abandoned space, in Brussels. 'So…
Natura Morta
Andrea Belfi's Miasmah debut, consisting of a set of six rhythmically-anchored pieces for floating electronics & creaking drones that pay homage to Roberto Cacciapaglia et.al while keeping their contemporary sensibilities intact. Natura Morta, "de…
Plays Popol Vuh
Italian sax wizard/multi-instrumentalist/electronic musician (and one of Caribou's Italian favorites) Valerio Cosi comes back after 5 years of silence with a new LP entitled "Plays Popol Vuh". We're not sure if he meant to cover the original titles b…