Hatıralar
Hatıralar was Anadol's second album, originally composed between Berlin and Istanbul around 2012 and released years later only in digital form on the Istanbul based label Inverted Spectrum. The title Hatıralar (Memories) is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Anadol recalled and revisited the music in 2023, gently editing and mixing the compositions for the newly mastered LP format in which they now see the light of day. Hatıralar represents an early version of the melodic, instrumental synth-pop that A…
Alloy
In 2015, Lemur started a collaboration with German pianist Reinhold Friedl. Friedl is the leader of the international ensemble Zeitkratzer, working at the intersection of improvisation and composition. In this respect, Friedl's experience and working method have much in common with the ideas and working methods Lemur uses. Not least through an interchange between work with large and small ensembles.In collaboration with Reinhold Friedl, we focus on the use of extended playing techniques, form ex…
Paradise Crick
— Black Vinyl edition — Like a winding system of trails and paths cutting through a digital forest-scape, M. Sage’s Paradise Crick is shaped by time. Full of wonder and charm, designed patiently and from a rich, curious mulch of synthesized and acoustic sound, the versatile American artist and magic realist’s new suite of music is an imaginary destination and a pastoral fantasy that envisions the natural and fabricated worlds as one.
Matthew Sage is a musician, intermedia artist, recording engin…
Out of the Playground
Sofa Music is proud to add the powerhouse flutist Alessandra Rombolà to its ranks with Out of the Playground, documenting Rombolà’s latest commissions and collaborations for solo flute and electronics with composers Daniela Terranova, Jan Martin Smørdal, Ingar Zach, and Lasse Marhaug. The album’s five contributions, drawing on Rombolà’s polyvalent musical background, are united in their mission to venture “out of the playground” of scenes and genres, as Rombolà puts it. Across these incisive, ex…
Dancing Like Dust
Núria Andorrà is a percussionist, improviser and composer from a classical and contemporary music background but always drawing from other sources of inspiration. Núria proposes a universe where images, sound and the body come together to create and transmit from an interdisciplinary perspective. She has performed with Agustín Fernández, Fred Frith, Lê Quan Nihn, Joëlle Léandre, Mats Gustafsson, Nate Wooley, and Joe Morris, as well as collaborating with Carles Santos, Hector Parra, Matmos and ot…
The God Bear Archives I
*300 copies limited edition* During the year 2021, Charlemagne entrusted us with numerous archives recently found on audio cassettes dating from the 70s and 80s. After a long process of listening and selection, we are pleased to present the first volume of these archives to you.
L'Herbe de Détourne
Tip! French folk experimentalist Ernest Bergez has spent several years bringing his signature, singular sound to life in solo mode. At the same time, and despite this individualist streak, he’s a musician with a deep appreciation for communal exchange and collaboration. It’s with this in mind that L’herbe de détourne, Bergez’s latest album, sees him expand his most prominent project Sourdure from a one-man band into a four-person force, and modify the name. Say hello to Sourdurent…
Bergez first …
Où Les Observer, Savoir Les Reconnaître
Vocalized electronics & intellectual kicks. Cervicals are shaking, neurons are chatting. Hello and thank you experimental France. The Americans envy us for having them. Decadent improvisations & raw virtuosity since 2006. 1803 concerts to their credit. 732,715 kilometers of road covered. A buttock forever and ever in the underground charts. Another one shamelessly coveting the MTV Music Award 2037. That's all, yeah.France Sauvage was banned from playing even before starting in the basement of th…
Live
*2023 stock. 30 copies limited edition C90* This recording is an album containing the trio's lives in Hong Kong between 2021 and 2022
Erasing Myself
*2023 stock. 30 copies limited edition C60* Phantasmagoria of sound sculpture, electronics, guitar debris & dance theater. Post-futurist clangor, dada/mbient improvisions, psychedustrial and enchromatic jazz. Throw off the yoke of anxiety and oppression, embrace the eternal Void as primal waveform.
Underpass Sessions
*2023 stock. 25 copies limited edition C30* Both recordings took from underpass gig, Outer Pulsation #25 at Shi-Da Underpass Sept. 24 2022. Two sessions of no-input electronics vs acoustic instruments.
Terje
Terje is a two-track EP by Swedish composer and improviser Alex Zethson. Featuring two movements from a score Zethson wrote for Victor Sjöström’s 1917 silent film, Terje Vigen, which was based on a poem by Henrik Ibsen, these beautifully poised compositions were premiered in Trondheim, Norway on November 20th, 2021, at Vår Frue Kirke (The Church of Our Lady). For this performance, which was recorded the day following the premiere, Zethson (on piano, synths and xylorimba) was joined by Ida Løvli …
Ta Yu Ta I
"I listened to the demo recordings for the “Ta Yu Ta I” CD. The track begins with the sound of a stone, and, for a moment I doubted my ears, thinking that it was the iwafue stone flute that I had lost overseas in 2005. The flute actually used on this recording was a replica on an ancient flute, one of three that have been handed down within my family. But until that moment when I heard the sound of it echoing inside my skull, I had completely forgotten about it. It was my living flesh that breat…
2 Concerts from Beijing 2018
*2023 stock. 100 copies limited edition* "Few words about Anzi: somehow, for me, she tells the meaning of "new music". She has daily job now and for a while she was a house wife. She is not active as an artist. She is quiet and looks weak. We had some collaborations and from those she influenced me so strongly. The recording on this cassette is from miji concert 57. You can check the video from a link on subjam.org for understand more (of course not for Chinese language but other aspects)." - Ya…
Live At KLEX 2018
Tip! *2023 stock. 100 copies limited edition* Kaoliang Brothers Live at KLEX (Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival) 2018, RAW Art Space, Kuala Lumpur. Collaboration between Taiwanese pioneer of experimental electronics Dino on no input mixing board and Malaysian tenor saxophonist virtuoso Yong Yandsen.
Köln
Tip! Recorded on their European tour in October 2022, this is the first release from the trio of Jason Kahn, Franzt Loriot and Christian Wolfarth.
Settings For Spirituals / Solo
**Original 1984 copies, still sealed and log time stored (copies may have minimal wear on covers)** Joel Chadabe, computer/synthesizer; Irene Oliver, soprano
In Settings for Spirituals Chadabe uses a computer programmed to follow the soprano's voice in every nuance and to generate "settings" to expand the musical quality of the vocal sound. In Solo, Chadabe uses a computer-music system that determines the notes of a melody and its accompaniment chords. Chadabe performs the piece by moving his h…
In The Wilderness
In The Wilderness opens with textured drums, a muted bass, celestial sound, like stars breaking into puddles. Confident engineering and gentle instrumentation invite the audience to wander into the unknown. The project draws from an experimental performance by drummer Gerald Cleaver and bassist Brandon Lopez, at 577 Records’ Forward Festival, which was later deconstructed and rebuilt by hip-hop producer Hprizm of the Antipop Consortium. All three musicians were involved in visioning the project’…
Transformations I
R. Iwanski presents new sound project explorating experimental approach to ethnic instruments like zanza, kalimba and other idiophones of African origin. Advanced electronic techniques are mainly used to process various acoustic sources - in order to create organic electroacoustic music.
Hemlock Stone
Persistence of Sound celebrates the composer Richard Orton (1940–2013) with a selection of electroacoustic and computer music from across his career.