Music from Switzerland

*100 copies limited edition* Phil Durrant // amplified objects, electronicsJason Kahn // voiceMark Wastell // percussionCaius Williams // double bass Recorded on September 12, 2025 by Dave Hunt in London.Mix, mastering and cover design by Jason Kahn.

*2026 stock* Zimoun returns to 12k with Wind Dynamic Organ, One & Two, a pair of longform pieces created with the Wind Dynamic Organ (Prototype III), located in Bern, Switzerland. Zimoun spent many sessions over a few years exploring and recording th…

*2026 stock* Swiss artist Zimoun had the honor and joy to spend time with a unique instrument, the Wind Dynamic Organ (Prototype III), located in Bern, Switzerland. He was given access to explore and record over the past few years. The result is two …

2014 flexi-disc by a member of the aktionist art/noise Schimpluch group released in Brasil by Estranhas Ocupações.

On his Clarinet Quintet, Jürg Frey stretches time until it feels almost weightless, using soft clarinet breaths and hushed strings to trace a slow, luminous drift where tiny inflections become whole landscapes of feeling.

“Deep Time” is a tape composition commissioned in 1991 by the Deep Listening Institute for Deep Listening Band. Fritz Hauser’s tape features recordings of sounding stones (manufactured by Arthur Schneiter) and various watches and clocks (thanks to th…

On changing bodies, Thomas Peter treats the world as a resonant instrument, folding field recordings, objects and synths into five patiently mutating pieces where motion, texture and silence feel as physical as touch.

Seven compositions for solo instrument, duos and orchestra, by the Swiss composer, spanning from 1963 to 1979,released on Bärenreiter-Musicaphon's "Basler Komponisten / New Music From Basle" contemporary music series in 1979.

Spiritual works for singers, chorus and orchestra by the two Swiss composers, released on Da Camera Magna in 1973.

On Tectonic, Simon Berz turns drums, electronics and electronically manipulated Icelandic basalt into a roaming, 15‑year travelogue: club‑pressured rhythms, gamelan echoes and cavernous ambience formed with stones as both instrument and co‑author.

The score Dotolim was originally realized in 2009 and composed for the performance space Dotolim. The musicians, Jin Sangtae, founder of Dotolim, and Joonyong Choi also performed on the 2009 version of the score. While on tour through Asia in 2023, I…

Pioneering Swiss trombonist and composer Andreas Tschopp marries contemporary jazz with South African horns and homemade ocarinas, creating a record quite unlike anything you've heard before. "What if We Align Our Breath" disregards the curvature of …

“These performances, by Heinz Holliger and Marie-Lise Schüpbach, are simply astonishing in their fluency,” wrote UK magazine Gramophone of Holliger’s album Zwiegespräche, and the description applies with equal pertinence to con slancio, with its insp…

With Convergence, his second solo album, Swedish-born bassist Björn Meyer further develops music on the blueprint established with his recording Provenance (2017), making use of the technical potential of the bass guitar to establish striking sonorit…

Three 1979 compositions respectively for string quartet, chorus and cello solo, released on Wergo in 1979.

1971's apocalyptic oratorio for chorus, speaker, tape and grand orchestra backed with 1970's concerto for violin and orchestra, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in 1973. With insert.

2006 release ** Limited edition of 150 copies.

2015 release ** "Two works, Frey's third string quartet (2010-2014) and a piece for string quartet and two percussionists (2004-2006), with Quatuor Bozzini on each, assisted by Lee Ferguson and Christian Smith on the latter. I get the impression that…

Another Timbre presents five essential releases exploring the furthest reaches of contemporary composition and electroacoustic investigation. This special bundle brings together works that exist beyond conventional categories - music demanding patien…

How does music inhabit the space between two worlds? Jürg Frey confronts this question directly in Je laisse à la nuit son poids d'ombre, a composition for ten musicians that exists in deliberate suspension, refusing the security of solid ground. Com…