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.
Hétérozygote / J'ai Été Coupé (LP)
Two pivotal electronic / musique concrète pieces realized ant the GRM in the 60's and released on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series in 1969. Beautiful and essential.
Und So Weiter / Music Promenade (LP)
Two pivotal classic pieces from the 60's, respectively for piano and tape and for realistic sounds, released on Wergo's "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" contemporary and electronic music series in 1969. Beautiful and essential.
Collection (CD)
Two marvellous pieces, one for piano and tape from 1985 plus one for piano, percussion and pre-recorded sounds from 1999, wonderfully performed and released on CD-only in 2003.
Le Voyage (D'Après Le Livre Des Morts Tibétain) (LP)
1968/9 edition on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series of 1963 feedback masterpiece based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record. Green labels.
Ceremony (LP)
Later 1970's re-pressing of Henry's 1969 wild electronic mass in collaboration with British hard rock / prog rock band.
Messe Pour Le Temps Présent / Le Voyage (CD)
1987 first CD re-issue of two landmark works from the 60's.
Mouvement Rythme Étude (CD)
1989 first CD re-issue of the 1970 music for a ballet by Maurice Béjart.
Variations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir / Voile D'Orphée (CD)
1987 first CD re-issue of two early masterpieces, respectively from 1963 and 1953.
Apocalypse De Jean (2CD)
First CD re-issue as a double-disc set on the superb and massive 1968 electronic oratorio in 5 parts.
Messe De Liverpool / Pierres Réfléchies (CD)
1991 CD coupling two great works, one from 1967 and one from 1982.
Intérieur / Extérieur (CD)
First and only CD edition of Henry's 1996 work once again using rock music elements, here provided by folk punk band Violent Femmes.
Songs Of Milarepa (LP)
Very rare first LP by Radigue released by Lovely Music in 1983, a minimal masterpiece featuring Robert Ashley. Please note the condition.