Music from France

Double LP edition, seminal album recorded in 1989 and originally released by Aaya in 1990, Check Point Charlie is the first work by Ghedalia Tazartés conceived for the compact disc format and its different time boundaries.  Check Point Charlie is a c…

Eliane Radigue - Virtuoso listening. A film directed by Anaïs Prosaïc. A portrait of Eliane Radigue, the 'Grande Dame' of long duration music. Between 1967 and 2000, Eliane Radigue composed more than twenty pieces of electronic music. She stopped wor…

New album by Brume (Christian Renou), who is a prolific French musique concrete composer/sound organizer who has been releasing CDs and cassettes worldwide. Renou is remarkable because he engages in elaborate concrete compositions without the academi…

Kassel Jaeger is a French-Swiss artist based in Paris and a member of the GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales). Deltas is his fifth album, and first on vinyl. "Campo Del Cielo" (2012): Commissioned by Espace Mendes France for a performance at The P…

A double journey into Kerala in India. Ghedalia Tazartes dips himself  into the sea of Indian traditions in Kerala, from Katakhali dance and  music to field recordings on location. A fantastic journey beyong India, through countries of the imagina…

Music : Franck Vigroux. Voice : Ben Miller. Franck Vigroux & Ben Miller began their overseas collaboration in 2009 with live shows in NYC and DC. Audio files and vocal tracks were then shared over the internet until a download release was made ava…

* Special edition with bonus 7". Long out of print, few copies available * Hinterzimmer Records is extremely proud to release one of Ghédalia Tazartès' major works of the last 20 years, Ante-Mortem. Although simply named 1 to 23, the album bears a co…

In 1981/1982 the French composer Luc Ferrari produced the radio play “Jetzt – oder wahrscheinlich ist dies mein Alltag, in der Verwirrung der Orte und der Augenblicke” [“NOW – or Probably This Is My Everyday Life in the Confusion of Places and Moment…

the hardest thing in the world is to have an original idea.  As much as creative musicians hate to admit, free improv/experimental/underground (and all other useless adjectival identifiers) music now has as many stylistic tropes as your standard …

Since the end of the 90s, Laurent Jeanneau has been recording the musics of mostly endangered minorities mainly in Southeast Asia. Alongside his relentless pursue of collecting predominantly unknown and unpublished musics, he produced a series of r…

Superb re-issue of 2nd cassette release from 1983! The true futuristic/bruitistic industrial machine sound from this French master! Comes in "heavy duty" oversized deluxe cover, lim./numb. 500 on black 200gr. vinyl. "Bruitism is the representation of…

Superdisque is the first album from the French trio formed by David Fenech (electric guitar) with Jac Berrocal (trumpet) and Ghédalia Tazartès (vocals). Somewhere beyond the borders of rock, jazz, punk and sound poetry -- the vocals seem to come fro…

Realised on the ARP Synthesizer in 1972. Piano: Gérard Fremy. Recorded at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, December 1979. Arthesis was realized on the Moog Synthesizer at the University of Iowa in 1973. Originally released on Fringes Recordings in 20…

A powerful exemplar of long time electro-acoustic artist, Christian Renou. Glossy Black Fruits was composed in two parts and features contributions from G. Guiggia & Mamma Baer + KHJ.

Back in stock. Few copies left. 'Collaborative release from Brume (Christian Renou) & Kommisar Hjuler und Frau (Mama Baer). Features Antizipation Des Generalised Other Parts 1-7. Psychotic, essential, & highly recommended!' label info

**Friends edition limited to 99 copies. Comes in black box with silver imprint and includes an additional numbered single-sided bonus LP housed in stickered plain black sleeve** French artist and autodidact Ghédalia Tazartès who is born in Paris in 1…

Transamorem - Transmortem was premiered on March 9, 1974 at The Kitchen in NYC, where the music programmer at the time was Rhys Chatham - this was right before his guitar phase. During this period, 'Transamorem - Transmortem' was presented along with…

An extraordinary combination of culled found and taped fragments juxtaposed against drums, field recordings and mystery noises, sound loops, birdsong, keyboards and emanations of his own throaty drones and voice propelled by hypnotic, ritualistic …

Restocked: Kassel Jaeger lives and works in Paris. He’s a member of the GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales). ‘algae’ is the follow-up of ‘aerae’ (senufo edition # five) and continues the author’s research on possible intersections of instrumental im…

A rare collaboration, Visitation unites French turntablist eRikm and electroacoustic pioneer Luc Ferrari for a masterclass in musique concrète and sonic collage, echoing the legacy of Pierre Schaeffer.