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Symphony No. 107 - The Bard
Black Truffle is pleased to announce Symphony No. 107 –The Bard, a previously unheard archival recording of the legendary improvising ensemble MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva), captured in concert at Bard College, New York in 2012. Formed by a group of American expat composers in Rome in 1966, the MEV ensemble played an important role in the development of free improvisation, bridging the live electronics tradition begun by John Cage and David Tudor and the high-energy squall of free jazz. Early re…
Dessogia / Queetch / Fauch
Black Truffle is pleased to announce the release of the results of this extensive session in the audacious form of a triple LP, housing over two hours of music across its six sides. The 2015 edition of Winnipeg’s send + receive festival, focussed on rhythm, turned out to be a generative meeting of minds. There, Mark Fell encountered the music of Will Guthrie, a meeting that was eventually to result in the frenetic acoustic drumkit and digital synthesis pairing heard on Infoldings and Diffraction…
Raag Kirwani on Tabla Tarang
Carrying on a string of stunning archival releases from major figures of Indian classical tradition (including releases from members of the Dagar family and Amelia Cuni), Black Truffle is pleased to announce an unheard recording from tabla master Kamalesh Maitra (1924-2005). For over fifty years, Maitra devoted himself to the rare tabla tarang, a set of between ten and sixteen hand drums tuned to the notes of the raga to be performed. While the tabla tarang has its origins in the late 19th centu…
The Vestige
The Vestige is the first fruit of a new intergenerational collaboration between Giuseppe Ielasi, a quietly prolific key contributor to the European experimental music scene for over twenty years, and Jack Sheen, a young composer-conductor-sound artist from Manchester whose recent projects have seen him moving seamlessly from enigmatic chamber music composition and installations to conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.
Their materials and working methods differ significantly, with Ielasi havi…
Spilla
Black Truffle is thrilled to announce Spilla, the second album from Nantes-based Ensemble Nist-Nah, 48 minutes of music for Gamelan, drum kits, wood and metal percussion instruments, and plucked strings that will surely count as one of the most electrifying records you hear this year. Founded by the Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie in 2019, continuing the explorations begun in solo form on Nist-Nah (Black Truffle, 2020), the ensemble (eight or nine core members with occasional guest…
Fernweh
Visionary electroacoustic explorations return as Black Truffle reissues Kassel Jaeger's Fernweh, a major work fusing musique concrète and synthesis into emotionally charged sonic landscapes of rare intensity.
Scheiße ’71 (LP)
Following on from the Bergisch-Brandenburgisches Quartett’s anarchic Live ’82 (BT095), Black Truffle continues its deep dive into the archives of legendary drummer/accordionist/photographer/composer/conceptual prankster Sven-Åke Johansson with Scheisse ’71. Recorded in November 1971 during the Berliner Jazztage at a heavy-hitting concert that also included the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and groups led by Peter Brötzmann, Manfred Schoof, and Masahiko Sato, Scheisse ’71 is the only document of a w…
Hidden
The inimitable Richard Youngs returns to Black Truffle with this third full-length for the label, »Hidden«. Like »CXXI« and »Modern Sorrow«, »Hidden« unfolds across two side-long pieces at once eminently listenable and possessed of the ›bloody-minded‹ dedication to having an idea and sticking with it’ that Youngs himself has identified as one of the key qualities of his work.
At the core of both pieces are rapid, randomised arpeggios generated with a Moog Grandmother, hypnotic patterns that woul…
On Fractured Ground / Skin Resonance
Gatefolf cover. Legendary New Zealand-born experimental composer and sound art pioneer Annea Lockwood returns to Black Truffle with On Fractured Ground / Skin Resonance, her third release for the label. Having recently celebrated her 85th birthday, Lockwood shows no sign of slowing down in her exploration of new sound sources and collaborations with an ever-growing intergenerational pool of performers – here with Vanessa Tomlinson. Her creative vibrancy is alive as ever on the two recent works p…
Round Sky
Round Sky brings together Léo Dupleix and Asterales in an exploration of just intonation and radiant calm. The album’s three compositions subtly merge analogue synthesizer, harpsichord, spinet, bass, flute, and guitar in landscapes of nuanced minimalism. Methodical in structure yet alive to spontaneous beauty, the record unfolds as a quietly luminous meditation on the complexities of harmony and texture.
Quixotism
LP version. Black Truffle presents a tenth anniversary reissue of Oren Ambarchi's Quixotism, originally released on Editions Mego in 2014. Recorded with a multitude of collaborators in Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA, Quixotism presents the fruit of two years of work in the form of a single, LP-length piece in five parts. Quixotism takes the driving rhythmic aspect of works such as "Sagittarian Domain" to new levels, with the entirety of this long-form work built on a foundation of pulsing …
Existential Crumbling
*50 copies limited edition* Professionally printed CDr inserted in a professionally printed cover. The cover is made of high quality embossed cardboard (250 grams thick) and is approximately 13x15 cm in size.
Distopie
*60 copies limited edition* Professionally printed CDr inserted in a professionally printed cover. The cover is made of high quality embossed cardboard (250 grams thick) and is approximately 13x15 cm in size.
What Next, Humans?
*Limited Edition 48 copies* Completely handmade packaging. The mini CDr is contained in a black envelope measuring 12x9 cm. about. The black envelope is in embossed cardboard (300 grams) with a leather-like effect, and is closed by a withe ribbon on which is inserted a metallic flower crown.
Inside the black envelope there are:-the printed mini Cdr inside a black cardboard cover-a small insert that reproduces the original cover of the tape made by M.B. printed in high quality paper-a mini poster…
Anthropology Cavernous Tremors
*40 copies limited edition*
Completely handmade packaging.The package consists of:-cardboard cover (200 grams thick) printed in color. The cover measures 12x10 cm. closed, and 12x20.50 cm. developed, The cover is closed with three double satin ribbons in blue, white and red, reproducing the French flag-2 mini CDRs with a black and white printed surface, which are contained in a double-sleeved envelope with adhesive attached to the front. The envelope is contained inside a fold of the cover-minip…
Industriale / Amoeba
*Limited edition 48 copies* The edition is completely handmade and consists of a lined cardboard envelope measuring approximately 10x13.5 cm. The envelope is closed with a small gray satin ribbon that holds two metal letters, the M and the B.
Inside the envelope you will find:- the printed mini Cdr contained in turn in a handmade envelope with gray adhesive tape- an insert folded into four parts and printed on the front and back in high quality paper measuring 19x19 cm. developed and 9.5x9.5 cm…
AktivitaT
*50 copies limited edition*
The edition is handmade.The package consists of a black envelope of embossed cardboard (thickness 250 grams) that has a cutout printed on canvas in the center.The envelope is closed with a double black satin ribbon that holds a pendant that reproduces the symbol of nuclear danger.The pendant is in two versions, gold and silver.Inside the package there are:-CDr professionally printed in a black paper envelope-cover printed on the front and back on high quality embossed…
Multifaceted Manifestations
*48 copies limited edition*
The edition is handmade.The package consists of a black envelope of embossed cardboard (thickness 250 grams) that has a cutout printed on polyester in the center.The envelope is closed with a double black satin ribbon that holds a pendant that reproduces a cogwheel.Inside the package there are:-CDr professionally printed in a black paper envelope-cover printed on the front and back on high quality embossed cardboard (thickness 260 grams)-two stickers
Nel cuore della bestia (Book)
*Please note that this book is available in Italian language only.* "The authors are one of the founders of Franti, the other since the early 1980s a fanzinista and then a reporter for A/Rivista Anarchica from the trenches of punk and self-production. Our names are Stefano Giaccone and Marco Pandin. Each of us, in his or her own way, dreamed of a revolution in the 1970s and 1980s: sure, we were young and these were things that were nice to do and needed to be done. Almost thirty years ago we col…
ANOK4U2 (Book)
"As you may know if you move in certain circles, Crass was a collective of English punks active between the late 1970s and 1984. Some of them had long been involved in certain creative fringes of the hippie movement in the previous decade. Anarchists and pacifists, they didn't have an easy life: from the very beginning, they had to fight hard to avoid being silenced. In 1985, they were labeled "an association operating on the fringes of the law" and convicted in court for producing "material con…