Espaces Inhabitables / Démeures Acquatiques / Medisances / Variations en Etoile / Capture Ephémère (2 reel-to reel tapes)
Amazing find: two reel to reel tapes with electro-acoustic compositions from 1967-1969 made at GRM (apparently by Bernard Parmegiani) and destined to be used for public or private listening, coming from composer Franca Sacchi's archive of tapes for her listening sessions in Milano around 1969/1970. With cyclostyled/typewritten notes about the pieces and the composers.
Dou Dou Doudo: Ao Vivo Na Cooperativa Árvore
*300 copies limited edition* Audio taken from a live performance by Anar Band (Jorge Lima Barreto and Rui Reininho) with E.M. de Melo e Castro in November of 1978 at Cooperativa Árvore, Porto. The performance was filmed. A segment was included in »Obrigatório Não Ver«, a weekly programme presented by Ana Hatherly on Public Television’s Second Channel. It was not possible to determine the exact date of the event, and no documentation seems to be available in the relevant archives. »Encontro que T…
Interrupteur / Tautologos 3 (CD)
1999 re-issue on Blue Chopsticks of the EMI LP with two landmark instrumental compositions respectively from 1967 and 1970.
Chansons Pour Le Corps / Et Si Tout Entière Maintenant (CD)
Two intriguing late 1980's pieces respectively for voice and instruments and a symphonic tale with memorized sounds released on Mode in 2002.
Archives Génétiquement Modifiées / Société II (CD)
Excellent 2008 CD-only release on Robot of the 2000 piece for for memorized sounds coupled with the only CD re-issue of the 1968 recording of the 1967 piece for 4 soloists and 16 instruments.
Chantal (CD)
2004 CD-only release on Avatar/OHM of the touching 1978 portrait of a villager in collaboration with Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari.
Les Anecdotiques (CD)
2004 CD-only release on Sub Rosa of the evocative 2002 radio piece composed using recordings made during trips.
Symphonie Déchirée (CD+DVD)
Wonderful symphony for 17 instruments and memorized sounds composed in 1998, performed by Ars Nova Ensemble and released by L'Empreinte Digitale in 2013 as a set including a DVD with Jacqueline Caux's film of the perfomance plus estras.
Sonopsys N° 4
2007 CD with two very early GRM tape pieces plus the 1996 radio play Selbsportait available only here, released as volume 4 of the Sonopsys book+CD magazine published by Licences in a limited edition of 500 copies. Rare.
Et Tournent Les Sons (CD)
2006 CD-only release on Césaré with the Laborintus Ensemble performing 1977 piece for tape and orchestra and the 2005 "Archives sauvées des eaux" for two CDs & orchestra with eRikm.
Contes Sentimentaux (4CD)
11 wonderful sentimental tales produced by the Ferrari's for SWK Radio between 1989 and 1994 based on several of Luc's compositions, released as an essential 4CD box set by Shiin in 2013.
Éphémère (CD)
2015 CD-only release on Mode with a 2012 version for viola & tape by Brunhild Ferrari of the 1974 composition, plus two other pieces respectively for piano viola and tape and viola, voice, percussion and electronics by Meyer-Ferrari and Royer.
Tautologos III / Havresac (CD)
2014 CD-only release on Éditions Piednu with GOL & Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari performing Ferrari's 1969 open piece plus their own 2012 improvisation.
(Presque rien) avec Luc Ferrari (book)
Long in-depth interviews with the composer by friend and film-director Jacqueline Caux. French text.
Portraits polychromes n°1: Luc Ferrari (book)
2007 expanded edition of the 2001 INA-GRM book, first volume of the "Polychrome Portraits" series, with three essays on the composer plus a biographical catalogue. French text.
Musiques dans les spasmes (book)
Enlightening collection of manuscripts edited by Brunhild Ferrari and Jérôme Hansen, with a preface by Jim O'Rourke, published in 2017. French text.
Decollare Verso il Mare
Decollare verso il mare (“Take off towards the sea”) starts like a simple story of long-distance collaboration and ends up as a small, resonant fragment of recent history. Across three tracks created in September 2022, Dav Cappai - a Sardinian drummer based in Pisa - and Copycat Department’s Alexandr Chiesa - Italian-Russian guitarist and producer working out of Moscow - sketch the outline of a project that was meant to cross borders as easily as files move across a network. The initial idea was…
Day Hospital
Day Hospital began not in a studio, but between a hospital bed and whatever lies just beyond it - that blurred zone where time dilates, bodies stall, and thought starts looping on itself. Out of that suspended space, Copycat Department shapes a sound project that treats techno and experimental music as twin methods for charting vulnerability and resistance. The album’s tracks feel written in the margins of medical charts: pulses like monitors, hissing textures like ventilation systems, bass that…
Sara Juega Y... + Vistas Fijas (Bundle)
Amazing find! ** Original copies of this wonderful 1985/86 releases. ** Two essential documents from the Mexican underground of the mid-1980s, now available together.
Rolando Chía's Sara Juega Y... (Al Ejandra, 1986) is a ghost-record of rare beauty: nine compositions of minimal folk that approach the tradition of American Primitivism - John Fahey, Robbie Basho - filtered through a deeply personal sensibility. An acoustic guitar that breathes, silences charged with meaning, the same patient atte…
Un Coup De Dés (LP)
Absolutely fantastic 1981 composition for 5 choirs, 2 double basses, 2 percussionists, 2 kettledrums and electronic tape, released on Harmonia Mundi's "Evénement / Musique française d'aujourd'hui" series in 1984.