Uversa (16. Stunde Aus Klang)
*2022 Stock.* Uversa (16th Hour from Klang, 2007) is for Basset-horn and Electronic Music. The electronic music element is derived from 3 extracted layers from Cosmic Pulses (The Stockhausen Edition no. 91), specifically Layers 7-9. These layers also include an additional, intermittent soprano vocal element (Kathinka Pasveer), which cues each of the 24 sections. This CD features the basset-horn of Michele Marelli. As a bonus, the electronic music is also presented without the soloist part for r…
Orvonton
*2022 Stock.* Orvonton (15th Hour from Klang, 2007) is for Baritone and Electronic Music. The electronic music element is derived from 3 extracted layers from Cosmic Pulses (The Stockhausen Edition no. 91), specifically Layers 4-6. This CD features the baritone vocal of Jonathan de la Paz Zaens. As a bonus, the electronic music is also presented without the soloist part for rehearsal.- Stockhausenspace.blogspot.com
Havona
*2022 Stock.* Havona (14th Hour from Klang, 2007) is for Bass and Electronic Music. The electronic music element is derived from 3 extracted layers from Cosmic Pulses (The Stockhausen Edition no. 91), specifically Layers 1-3. This CD features the bass vocal of Nicholas Isherwood and as a bonus, the electronic music is also presented without the soloist part for rehearsal. - Stockhausenspace.blogspot.com
Himmels-Tür (4. Stunde Aus Klang) - 24 Türin
*2022 Stock.* Himmels-Tür (Heaven’s Door, 4th Hour from Klang) for a "percussionist and a little girl" (2005) is essentially performed on a hand-made door, with panels constructed from different types of wood in order to obtain a broad range of timbral colors. The piece consists primarily of 15 moods, followed by a final theatrical event involving cymbals and sirens (the little girl element is not aural). This piece could be considered a kind of microtonal, neo-marimba piece performed on found …
Himmelfahrt
*2022 Stock.* Himmelfahrt (Ascension, 1st Hour from Klang, for synthesizer, soprano and tenor (and some percussion) (2004/05): This work primarily features the polyphonic/polytimbral synthesizer of Antonio Pérez Abellán, with added sung text by Hubert Mayer (tenor) and Barbara Zanichelli (soprano). Abellán did the synthesizer programming and also provides the intermittently-occurring percussion parts (bamboo chimes, metal bowl, gong percussion). As a bonus, the 48 timbres employed (blended synth…
Spirit Walking
*250 copies limited edition* An album that whisks you out of the muggy present and into a dream-like lull, Spirit Walking collects a set of piano improvisations from Jordan Ireland (Blue Divers, Stolen Violin, The Purple Orchestra, ex-The Middle East). Two sides of only piano (no vocals, seemingly no overdubs, not even any room sound), these tracks wander through and explore meditative left hand drones, right-hand lyrical phrasing, and bursts of riffing, trying to reconcile post-Alice Coltrane s…
Leva Leva: Litany of the Portuguese Fishermen
With its new project focusing on the songs of fishermen in Portugal, the FLEE platform attempts to combine in-depth anthropological research with a hybrid contemporary and artistic reflection on an important facet of Portuguese social and cultural history.
Through working songs from the 1940s, 60s and 80s recorded in the Algarve region, the project attempts to document the history of these fishermen, the nature of their hardships and often exploitative conditions, as well as their gradual encoun…
First Meeting
Edition of 500 copies pressed on clear vinyl, newly mastered and including a 12" x 12" double sided insert of liner notes and archival images
Language Is The Skin
Tip! "Language is the Skin" is the fourth full length release by New Monuments, the quartet co-led by Don Dietrich (Borbetomagus) and Ben Hall (Graveyards/Bill Dixon). Hall and Dietrich continue applying pressure to the structure of the relationship between saxophone and percussion. "Language" branches out to include totally new forms, line-ups, and instrumentation. New to the band, replacing C. Spencer Yeh, are Don's 25 year-old shredder daughter Camille adding 'cello, big Stockhausian refriger…
Organism
Organism is the debut album from Copenhagen Clarinet Choir. With track titles like ’Flocking’, ‘Hive Mind’ and ‘Water Piece’, the work is situated at the intersection of composition and improvisation, and at the nexus of nature and music. Led by Irish woodwind player and composer Carolyn Goodwin, the clarinet sextet takes an egalitarian approach in the way it assembles its players. In the music of Organism, interdependent parts find an overall shape as organically as a living entity. Much like a…
for four double basses
*In process of stocking.* Minimalism is the keyword for the release from Bryan Eubanks. He composed work for four double basses, and Jonathan Heilbron, Mike Majkowski, Andrew Lafkas and Koen Nutters are the performers here. The score/concept is explained on the cover here; this is an excerpt: "[..] .....Each bass bows natural harmonics on one of the strings (I, II, III, IV), holding each note for the chosen duration and allowing a pause equal to half of this duration between each note. ..... All…
Hosono House
The unbelievably prolific Haruomi Hosono is one of the major architects of modern Japanese pop music. With his encyclopedic knowledge of music and boundless curiosity for new sounds, Hosono has put his unmistakable stamp on hundreds of recordings as a session player, producer, and auteur of his own idiosyncratic musical world. Born and raised in central Tokyo, his adolescent obsession with American pop culture informed his early forays into country music, which he would revisit later in his care…
Drumming Up Trouble
Black Truffle is thrilled to announce Drumming Up Trouble, the first release of previously unissued music by Alvin Curran on the label. Collecting works recorded between 2018-2021 and a side-long epic dating back to the early 80s, as the title suggests, Drumming Up Trouble focuses on a hitherto almost unknown aspect of Curran’s encyclopaedic and omnivorous musical world: his experiments with sampled and synthesised percussion. As Curran’s wonderful, wildly sweeping liner notes make clear, his fa…
Chasing the Phantom
Dewa Alit, Bali's master of contemporary Gamelan composition, returns to Black Truffle with Chasing the Phantom, presenting two recent works played by the composer's Gamelan Salukat, a large ensemble that performs on instruments specially built to his designs, using a unique tuning system that combines notes from two traditional Balinese Gamelan scales. Alit explains that the ensemble's name suggests "a place to fuse creative ideas to generate new, innovative works" and both compositions demonst…
Two Sisters
** Black Vinyl 2LP Gatefold with a 20 page booklet. Comes with an exclusive coil bound 52 page A4 landscape score book to full album **The new album from Sarah Davachi on her own Late Music imprint is a collection of nine extended compositions for chamber ensemble and solo pipe organ. "The expanded instrumentation on this album includes carillon (a keyboard instrument comprised of very large cast-iron bells), choir, string quartet, low woodwinds, and trombone quartet, alongside sine tones and e…
Alkisah
*2022 Stock. In process of stocking.* The new album by critically acclaimed Indonesian duo Senyawa is being co-released by 44 different labels worldwide, and School of the Arts presents a Russian version on cassette. It features the full album as well as two extended remixes: Moa Pillar’s 14-minute heavenly ambient and a 24-minute poisonous drone collage by Ivan Zoloto.
Senyawa’s music combines extended vocal techniques of Rully Shabara and homemade instruments built and played by Wukir Suryad…
Juxtaposition II (Blitz Opposition)
Tip! *2022 Stock. In process of stocking.* A turbulent quartet of Oslo-based improvisers brings the house down with two voices, bass, guitar, and drums ⏤ RIYL free voice, skronk, jazz negativity, dub effects, Naked City and Painkiller.
Vocalist Agnes Hvizdalek delivers a unique form of glossolalia (think Monk, Eye, and animal sounds) backed up by noise-rock-influenced axe-grinders from the band MoE: Guro Skumsnes Moe herself on electric bass and voice and Håvard Skaset on guitar. Utku Tavil punc…
Live In Murmansk
2022 Stock. In process of stocking. Trombonist and violinist of Copenhagen’s Selvhenter make noise in Russia’s Far North. Maria Bertel and Maria Diekmann are founding members of the acclaimed Selvhenter band and Eget Værelse, a collective that unites various projects of its members ranging from free noise to electronic pop music. In the middle of winter of 2017, two Marias visited Murmansk, Russia, a fjord city 2° north of the Arctic Circle, to play a rather short but very inspired set of solo a…
Sun Ark Prayer Tapes, Vol. 1 & 2
*100 copies limited edition* Sun Araw first released the Prayer Tapes in two separate volumes back in 2012, a set of long form improvisational solo work you would easily be forgiven for missing given the prolific activity of Cameron Stallones around that turn of the decade period. They're more than worth a revisit now, heady, zoned-out excursions that seem to emerge in a fog of purple-y gloom. It's typically humid exploratory work from Stallones, that beautifully dense Sun Araw sound that plays …
Des Lumières, Des Ombres, Des Figures
*2022 Stock. In process of stocking. Limited edition of 300 copies.* Sun Stabbed is a guitar duo formed at Grenoble in 2005. “Des lumières, desombres, des figures” is the first LP of the band resulted from the first privatesession that has been recorded. This session happened in Le 102’s basement, the 11th February 2009. The editing / mixing / reworking has been done in 2010 after forgetting a littlebit what was recorded. The music is maybe the most varied disc of the band so far, with some clas…