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chry-ptus
The first piece Eliane Radigue ever composed on a modular synthesizer, Chry-ptus was realised in 1971 on a Buchla 100 - the same one Morton Subotnick had recently installed at New York University. Conceived as two simultaneous tapes intended to be played together with or without synchronisation, the work produces, on each new realisation, a different play of sub-harmonics and overtones, slight shifts in amplitude and location altering the surface while leaving the underlying structure intact. Th…
In Praise of Learning
* Remastered repress. Comes with printed inner sleeve. * In Praise of Learning, the third Henry Cow album, released on Virgin in 1975, is where the band's politics and its music fused into a single hard object. It followed a brief, consequential merger with the pop trio Slapp Happy: after the collaborative Desperate Straights, the two groups joined, then came apart again, leaving Henry Cow with a vocalist for the first time in the extraordinary Dagmar Krause. Recorded at the Manor in February an…
Stunt
Issued in 2008 as the first installment of a three-part series, Stunt marks a striking departure for Giuseppe Ielasi. Best known up to that point for the patient ambient and electroacoustic work on labels like Häpna and 12k, Ielasi sets aside guitars and field recordings here in favour of a single tool: one turntable, and a large pile of vinyl records.
The six pieces collected on this 12" were assembled over three months from short segments, loops, and longer improvisations drawn directly from t…
Music For Percussion
Ryoji Ikeda - Japan’s leading electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the essential characteristics of sound itself and that of visuals as light by means of both mathematical precision and mathematical aesthetics. Ikeda has gained a reputation as one of the few international artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately orchestrates sound, visuals, materials, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and in…
Colori
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and EMI General Music, presents a reissue of Ennio Morricone’s iconic album Colori, celebrating its 55th anniversary. In the summer of 1971, Morricone entered the legendary Orthophonic Studios in Rome alongside his longtime collaborators Bruno Nicolai, Alessandro Alessandroni and Edda Dell’Orso, and recorded a selection of ten tracks drawn from some of his recent film scores, many of which had not yet been released. He remixed some cues and re-recorded …
Lac Noir - La Serpente 1992
Unreleased material composed by Bernard Parmegiani in 1992
Unrest
* Remastered repress. Comes with printed inner sleeve. * Two records in one, hinged at the exact moment a rock band decided to dismantle itself in the studio and see what was left. Unrest was the second album by Henry Cow, recorded at Virgin's Manor studios across February and March 1974 and released that May. It was the first to feature Lindsay Cooper, whose bassoon, oboe and recorder replaced the saxophone of the departed Geoff Leigh, completing the line-up of Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson, John …
The Third World-Underground
A title like a manifesto, and music with the conviction to carry it. For a few nights at the close of 1972, the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen held a trio that would barely survive the season. Abdullah Ibrahim - then still recording as Dollar Brand - sat at the piano; Don Cherry stood with his trumpet; Carlos Ward raised his alto. From the performance of November 14 came The Third World-Underground, a record that surfaced only in Japan, on Trio Records' Nadja imprint in 1974, and then all but …
Sub Re
Kassel Jaeger (aka François J. Bonnet) returns to Shelter Press after Swamps / Things, Shifted in Dreams, and the recent reissue of the classic Zauberberg, co-composed with Akira Rabelais and Stephan Mathieu. With this major new album, entitled Sub Re, Bonnet continues his long exploration of the musical possibilities of sound, extending the concrete approach developed at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, the historic and essential Parisian studio that Bonnet has been directing since 2018. Sub…
Parkustomnie
First documentation of an improvised session by Jean-Luc Guionnet (church organ) and Miguel A. García (electronics) recorded at the Conservatorio Jesús Guridi in Vitoria-Gasteiz in 2016. Across two pieces, the duo plays the dynamics of the electroacoustic field itself: the work is calibrated so that playing it at different volumes produces materially different listening experiences, with the threshold of audibility used as a compositional parameter. Particularly quiet, post-reductionist.
Alice The Goon
On Alice The Goon, Nurse With Wound stretch a single bad dream into half an hour of delirium: queasy not‑quite‑“easy listening” that mutates from lounge lilt to industrial throb, like a Popeye cartoon left to rot in a dripping underground cinema.
Canto de Olho
German saxophonist Luise Volkmann and Brazilian guitarist / vocalist Kiko Dinucci return with intimate, devotional new album Canto de Olho.
Fantasy
On Fantasy, Piero Umiliani resurfaces four decades late with a perfectly preserved final statement: a 1983 library dream where analog synths, light orchestration and soft rhythms drift between science‑fiction shimmer and easy‑listening warmth, closing his universe on a quietly visionary note.
Outtakes
Tip! *120 copies limited edition* Our first personal contact with Bryn Jones was in 1995 when the Muslimgauze album "Silknoose" came out on my Daft Records label and the contact was always excellent. He knew that Eric, who did the mastering, and I loved his music since the beginning. Later on we planned a mini CD with 4 Muslimgauze / Sonar and 4 Sonar / Muslimgauze remixes so we exchanged some audio pieces to work with and to our great surprise Bryn sent us two DAT tapes with 16 remixes in total…
Next To Nothing
Black Editions presents the expanded and definitive edition of White Heaven's brilliant third album Next to Nothing. Originally released in 1994 by Tokyo's Noon Disk, the full album was only ever available in a limited vinyl pressing of 250 copies. Since then, it has become one of the most sought-after artifacts of the '90s Japanese underground and is regarded as a highpoint of Japanese psychedelic rock.
Led by vocalist, songwriter and conceptualist You Ishihara, the album finds the group in a…
Du Formol Orgonal
*300 copies limited edition* The powdered-nosed Escampette, a devil, steps out of the reserve he once assigned himself with the complicity of the warder. In his new recipe book he deciphers for us several ways of inhabiting the night, that refuge running beneath the day, and, by brushing it, draws the map of paths winding between woods and thickets where strange trumpets grow. It is in their coppery foliage that he cools the fire of his cheeks.
In constant molt, the devil knows when and how to t…
Sweetly Doing Nothing
Few figures within the long, strange arc of American experimental music have occupied terrain quite as singular as Tom Recchion's. Co-founder, in the mid-1970s, of the Los Angeles Free Music Society - the gloriously unruly collective of basement noise-makers, exotica obsessives, tape manipulators, and assembled-instrument visionaries whose lineage runs through Smegma, the Doo-Dooettes, and Le Forte Four - Recchion has spent the subsequent decades assembling one of the most idiosyncratic bodies o…
Cholagogues (CD)
First and only 2009 CD reissue on Schoolmap of 1977 LP by honourable trio of improvisers playing all kind of instruments and sound producing devices.
Psychopathia Sexualis
Long whispered about and barely seen, Whitehouse’s Psychopathia Sexualis finally claws its way out of 1982’s creamy‑vinyl underworld, reborn on CD as a fully remastered, meticulously documented legacy edition for the noise faithful and the merely morbidly curious.
Healsgebedda Budgerigar
On Healsgebedda Budgerigar, Nurse With Wound turn memory itself into a delirious tape loop: three long, sample‑swollen excursions where pet chatter, phantom TV themes and street detritus melt into a woozy, psychedelic netherworld of half‑remembered sound.