Music from France

Original edition on Crammed of the first solo album by ZNR member of beautiful electronic chamber-rock, released in 1984 in the superb Made To Measure series.

*2026 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Since their formation in 2009, the Samuel Blaser Trio has been captivating audiences with their innovative sound and dynamic performances. Blaser Music is thrilled to present their second official release, a limited edition 10-inch blue vinyl that captures the essence of their artistry. This album was recorded during their recent tour in the UK, with a special stop at the renowned Steve Winwood Studio. The recording sessions were beautifully captured by J…

On My Degeneration: Electronics 1974-1983, Pascal Comelade emerges not as the toy‑instrument miniaturist of later years but as a solitary electronics alchemist, charting a decade of raw, laboratory‑grade synth experiments that stretch from kosmische drift to fractured proto‑industrial pulse.

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…

With Ça commence par la marche (It Begins with the Walk), Jérémie Ternoy presents an immersive work in which repetition becomes movement and movement becomes sonic architecture. Building on a career shaped by major collaborations — notably with Magma — as well as his own projects (Organik Orkeztra, his trio, and TOC), he delivers here a fully realized synthesis of his artistic explorations. The album makes walking its founding principle: moving forward slowly, perceiving the world in its finest …

Cinna Peyghamy unveils new album fusing Persian tombak and modular synthesis. Five years in the  making, "Music For Tombak & Synth" bridges  heritage, technology, and personal identity. The project, initiated in 2019 during Peyghamy's  master's thesis research on contact microphones, was conceived as a means to reconnect with his  Persian roots while exploringexperimental sound design. In the album, Peyghamy seamlessly blends the traditional Persian tombak with modular synthesis and digital sign…

*2026 stock* Ten years ago, La Tène released their first record, then as a trio with Cyril Bondi, d’Incise, and Alexis Degrenier. A decade, four albums, and multiple collaborations later, the group returns with Moreïne/Déclives—an album that feels as much like a celebration as it does an upheaval. True to its identity, La Tène continues to explore the cracks between tradition and experimentation, between hypnotic drone and repeated gestures, but this time they choose to move onto new ground: the…

With Heat, Société Étrange extends its work around repetition, groove and cyclic structures, shaping an instrumental music that is both hypnotic and enveloping. Without any radical shift, the Lyon-based trio subtly moves towards more melodic and more cinematic forms, revealing warmer, more textured and sometimes more luminous atmospheres. Formed by Antoine Bellini (electronics), Romain Hervault (bass) and Jonathan Grandcollot (drums), Société Étrange builds here a more diffuse trance, driven by …

On Cold Shoulder, Oren Ambarchi and Will Guthrie distil decades of experiment into a quietly blazing live duo set: spiralling Leslie‑soaked guitar and hyper‑sensuous drums move from hovering abstraction to glowing, melodic clarity with the ease of players who no longer need to prove anything.

10" featuring this explosive encounter between two of the wildest and most irrepressible musicians on the current international adventurous scene: the American electronics artist Container (real name Ren Schofield) and the Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie.

With Sonnailles, Franck Vigroux bends his rigorously sculpted electronics toward the body, fusing sequence‑driven structures, spectral voices and brute sonic impact into a tense, physical grammar of movement and memory.

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On Nègre blanc, Jean-Louis Costes turns a label’s “make a jazz record” brief into a feral cut‑up: Quentin Rollet’s solo sax improvisations are diced, looped and smeared under Costes’ confrontational vocals, flipping free jazz into a trash‑opera about race, filth and French identity.

On Downwind, Pierre Moerlen's Gong trades cosmic whimsy for aerodynamic precision, fusing mallet‑drunk jazz‑rock, prog heft and a dash of pop clarity into a sleek late‑70s vessel where vibraphones, drums and guest guitar gods share the same thermal updraft.

Quite original and diverse first cassette by early French post-industrial project, privately released in 1983 with A4 xeroxed cover.

*200 copies limited edition* My Garden marks the culmination of a long and meticulous creative process. Over the course of many months, Hugo Champion has carefully shaped and refined each sonic element, cultivating a deeply immersive body of work that stands among his most accomplished to date. Rooted in a lush and evocative ambient aesthetic, the album will resonate instantly with longtime followers of Cyclic Law, while remaining highly accessible to new listeners. Subtle yet insistent, these r…

French artist The Dead Mauriacs (Olivier Prieur) has been releasing many works based on a collage style. This album is the second release on zappak. "Un Théâtre aux yeux clos / A Theater with closed eyes" is based on a quite minimal collage style. There are some spaces like silence, and subtle electro-acoustic sounds are placed quite carefully. They sometimes whisper and other times roar. In between 45 minutes the curtain falls and rises, you might see a play that you have never experienced befo…

Excellent first single by one-man industrial/noise project strongly influenced by the Futurists' art of noise, self-released on Électro Institut in 1984.

Superb 1985 EP by one-man industrial/noise project strongly influenced by the Futurists' art of noise, self-released on Électro Institut in collaboration with St. Pierre Museum.

Rare early cassette-only release by one-man industrial/noise project strongly influenced by the Futurists' art of noise, released by Bande Blanche in 1985.