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Following last year's incredible 'Gesine' comes Italian experimental guitarist Giuseppe Ielasi's latest full-length, an album which may come as something of a surprise to fans of his earlier work. The obvious inclusion of electronic elements comes at…
Gesine
Apparently mining his own aural Sutton Hoo, Giuseppe Ielasi is an Italian experimental guitarist and electronic botherer, who pulls all sorts of musical styles from the trench labelled 'Gesine'. Coming across as partially improvised, 'Gesine' is Iela…
Subgestuel - Diffluences - Phonophonie
A first monographic compact disc for this composer born in 1951, a pupil of Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel, winner of the Villa Médicis Prize "hors les murs" in 1995, who has also contributed to the musical research activities of the IRCAM, in the A…
Une Saison En Enfer
Composed in 1979 and realized at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique (Lyon, France) by Gilbert Amy with the assistance of Daniel Teruggi. Performed with Fusako Kondo (soprano), Edwige Parat (soloist of Maîtrise de Radio France), Jean-Pierre D…
Metal notes
Metal Notes resuscitates a long-lost, decades-old cassette-only release by the great New York collective Gamelan Son of Lion and brings to the fore the incredible metallic drones of a group whose innovative minimal music has rightfully earned them a …
The complete gamelan in the new world
This is the first proper re-release of two legendary recordings by the innovative Gamelan Son of Lion. This New York performance group has counted as its founding members Fluxus pioneer Phillip Corner, electronics composer Daniel Goode (Tzadik), and …
Defekt
Matchless Recordings presents a live performance by Furt. The album includes four tracks performed by Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer - electronics.Track 1 - recorded in Berlin, December 2001Track 2 - produced in Watford, October 1997Track 3 - pro…
Rhythm
Rhythm is neither pop nor avant-garde, but deals simply with the basic principles of any modern music: rhythm. Frank Bretschneider takes his never simple, but all the more heartfelt relationship to rhythm and its complexity to an intense inventory, a…
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Dessus la mer composed 1995-1997. Equus - Carnet d'esquisses composed 1993, derived from a 4-seconds recording of the steps of a horse. Scènes des voyages d'Ulysse composed 1981, created as incidental music for a production of The Odyssey.
Le chemin du paradis
Another installment from the Fario label in their attempt to bring together two artists. Usually these CDs consist of three tracks: one collaborative track and one by each artist solo. For this fifth CD two Vital Weekly household names show up: Fran…
Untitled #164
Using field recordings made in Brussels together with TRMX, Johan Vandermaelen, Martiens Go Home, and Building Transmissions, López mutates and records these into an intense 73 minute composition that takes the sounds of a city and transforms them in…
Musica electroacustica 1988-2000
Composer from Argentina. “Orillas” (1988), “El pájaro” (1995), “Vientos” (1996), “Al sur” (1997), “El regreso” (2000), “El vuelo” (2000).
New days
Available on CD and heavyweight vinyl. The vinyl edition is limited to 300 copies cut by the legendary Rachad at Dubplates & Mastering. Each cover is an ORIGINAL lino-cut print by Carina Thorén that extends over the front & back covers... CD is the '…
Cendre
This is the highly anticipated full-length collaborative release by Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto, following the 19-minute CD EP overture, Sala Santa Cecilia (a completely separate release which is not included here). This release features a…
Sala Santa Cecilia
Every once in a great while, a collaboration comes along which hints at a brighter future, a collision of giants that indicates a convergence of method and music. This is one such event. Sala Santa Cecilia documents the meeting of worldwide laptop gu…
Field recordings 1995:2002
Field Recordings brings together a range of material Christian Fennesz has contributed to compilations, special projects and film soundtracks between the years 1995 and 2002. It also includes his debut 12" for Mego, the awesome Instrument remastered.…
Axolotl lullabies
A collection of remixes and compilation tracks 1999-2006. Carefully edited by Felix Kubin and Eric Mattson, this CD is more than a compilation. It brings lights on the different activities of a great open-minded composer from Hamburg. All these track…
Technology of sleep
Eso Steel represent one increasingly divergent attitude in the manipulation of environmental and contact microphone recordings. On the one hand, Eso Steel (New Zealander Richard Francis, now living in Japan) recontextualises his recordings through a …