Experimental / Overtone Singing

Necessary reissue of a truly seminal, minimalist totem and founding document of the avant-garde underground!

**2020 stock, 300 copies** On July 7, 2017, Phurpa performed a Chöd / Chod live ritual in Santarcangelo, Italy. The ritual was held inside a cave (grotta in Italian). Chöd / Chod is an ancient practice of cutting through tensions, fears, and obstacle…

**2020 stock, 300 copies** "On April 14, 2018 Old Europa Cafe and Scenasonica organised the historical OEC label festival in Pordenone, Italy.The venue took place in a medieval deconsecrated Monks church, without doubts the perfect environment for a …

The only two full-length records La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela released, together. Four sides and four dates, each one printed in the title to the minute: August 1964, July 1969, January 1973, July 1973. Nine years, from a bowed gong to three sin…

"Singing in Unison" is the final in a series of recordings from acclaimed sound artist, composer and performer Yoshi Wada. Recorded live over two nights, March 14 and 15, in 1978, at New York City's legendary performance space The Kitchen, "Singing i…

Super tip! Black Truffle is pleased to announce Melopea, presenting two new pieces highlighting the incredible voice of Amelia Cuni (1958-2024), the great Italian singer, based in Berlin in later life, whose mastery of the classical Indian dhrupad de…

In 1977 an obscure Italian private label issued a record that sounded like it came from outer space. A long and dense trance-inducing drone of sustained notes, rich with overtones and harmonic embellishments, coming from a space so vast and unexplore…

* Edition of 300 * Come When The Raven Calls is the second album by Suzanne Langille and Neel Murgai after more than two decades performing together. Langille fuses the rawness of American spiritual blues with Murgai’s trance-like percussion and mult…

In a once in a lifetime occurrence, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been able to get our hands on a very limited number of original archive copies of “Die Erde und Ich Sind Eins - I Am One With the Earth”, the debut solo LP by legendary Popol V…

1992 release ** "Liturgical oratorio for overtone choir and instruments. A composition for large ensemble that integrates archaic, responsibly-formed music, various overtone techniques, and the created vocal circle mantras Sai Ja Om.."

The power of duality is an inscrutable thing: we’re endlessly fascinated by the interplay between light and darkness, East and West, voice and silence, our senses tingling from the compelling synergies that thrive in perceived opposites. Drawing from…

Very rare Indian-only cassette of 1940's recordings of wonderful ragas by Pandit Pran Nath's master Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan, distributed by La Monte Young.

Marc Behrens presents six extended surrealist songs ranging from psycho rock to dismantled R&B, crossing into doom jazz and spoken word. Animal field recordings; electronic boom and buzz; synths; detuned sitar; violins played by Portuguese master mus…

Vetter came from the recorder, where his work on multiphonics and microtones drew new pieces out of Stockhausen, Kagel and Bussotti. Here it is pianos and overtone singing, the upper partials pulled away from the fundamental until they read as a sepa…

Very rare first publication of VHS cassette of 1986 documentary on Pandit Pran Nath, featuring Terry Riley, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela.

Original 1968 US first LP of ecstatic ragas by La Monte Young and Terry Riley's Indian music teacher.

Rare first release of a 1968 recording of ecstatic ragas by La Monte Young and Terry Riley's teacher, produced by Young.

Rare original second LP of exstatic ragas by La Monte Young and Terry Riley's teacher. Later pressing (circa 1973) with grey labels.

Very rare US edition with calligraphy by Marian Zazeela on the CD label and 16-page booklet.

Rare LP limited to 50 copies

Very rare original 1987 box-set including 28-page book and subscription card. A true minimalistic totem.