Tape
All records with tape · Solo tape only
A Landform Embodies a Mythical Creature
Sixteen audio scenes answering the long-exposure photographs of Brice Bischoff: cassette recordings of canyons, caves and ravines, reshaped in the studio with film-style spatial effects. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
Electronic Music 1955-1984
Anthology of the German-born dancer and choreographer's electronic music for dance, made in his three North London studios: tape loops, kettle-lid percussion, radio interference and generator pulses, in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.
Deep Siesta
Amen Feizabadi's chamber opera Deep Siesta, on a libretto by Dilek Mayatürk about two artificial beings, with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and Zafraan Ensemble conducted by Yalda Zamani, plus AI voices and electronics. A Deutschlandfunk Kultur coprod…
Vida
Portrait album of Misha Cvijović: nine works from full orchestra to minimoog and tape, played by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Enno Poppe, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Sebastian Berweck and the Trio Splitsignals Berlin.
Sky Yen
Pete Shelley's 1974 electronic recording, made two years before Buzzcocks on a home-built oscillator and a two-track tape recorder: drones, feedback and echo, on CD for the first time.
Obsidian Shaking Codex
The 1993 RRRecords session, the heaviest Skullflower record of the first decade: Matthew Bower, Stuart Dennison and Russell Smith in five long pieces of droning, chaotic dissonance.
For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music's 1973 second album, the last with Brian Eno, remastered on 140g black vinyl with a second disc of unreleased AIR Studios outtakes and the Eno tapes of the title track, in a gatefold sleeve curated by Bryan Ferry.
Variance / Duo
Two unreleased late works by Pierre Henry for his centenary: Variance (2005), a fugal homage to Luc Ferrari, and Duo (2003), a gestural rhapsody for feedback and piano dedicated to Maurice Béjart. Licensed from Studio Son/Ré.
Some Attributes Of A Living System
The first album under the Mnemonists name, released in 1980 in 500 copies on the Colorado collective's own Dys label: 22 'Fragments' of improvisation between modern classical, noise, industrial and free jazz, by the circle that became Biota. Reissued…
Music For Two Films About Water
Liz Harris, aka Grouper, collects two scores for short films about water by Tanja Engelberts and Takashi Makino: two long pieces of Mellotron, tape loops, Wurlitzer and field recordings. On Kranky.
Impressions
Six acousmatic works by Julien Guillamat from 2010 to 2026, from Birmingham pieces built on the dismantling of the BEAST loudspeaker system to recent soundscapes of the Aure Valley in the Hautes-Pyrénées, recorded in its ski resorts and mountain vill…
Sillages
Roxanne Turcotte’s “sonic archeology”: electroacoustic works mixing everyday objects, field recordings from Tokyo, the Seychelles and New Zealand, and sounds of Jean-François Laporte’s invented instruments, dedicated to her late colleagues and mentor…
Malgré Tout
Four works by Monique Jean from 2015 to 2024, three built on MissTake, her no-input four-track tape recorder with effects pedals, including Volt_#1 and Volt_#3, plus Tumultes, inspired by novels by Adania Shibli and Antoine Wauters. CD-R.
Cartografía Interior
Debut solo album by Montréal sound artist Diego Bermudez Chamberland: a 44-minute acousmatic work in three movements (2020-23, revised 2025) freely inspired by the Norse cosmos of Snorri Sturluson’s Edda, moving from the scale of Yggdrasil to the mic…
Du Noir Tout Autour
Armando Balice’s triptych of inner gardens from 2018 to 2021, three acousmatic pieces in eight movements each built from ravens, forest recordings, analogue synthesizers and the cello of Lola Malique, starting with an Ina-GRM commission inspired by J…
Coups de Foudre
Three multichannel works by Stéphane Roy from 2022 to 2024: a war piece after poems by Paul-Marie Lapointe, a sound bestiary for Jean-François Laporte’s Babel table, and nine acousmatic miniatures on experiential time. CD-R.
Exomusique
Seven multichannel works by Åke Parmerud from 2019 to 2025 that push guitar, piano, percussion and string quartet into music no player could perform, from the alien metal band of Heavy Metal to a Latin groove for Javier Álvarez.
Vox Alia
Annette Vande Gorne’s complete Vox Alia cycle (1992-2024), five multichannel works on the voice without words, from Maria Callas and Pierre Schaeffer in Affetti to sacred chant, a Werner Lambersy poem, crowds and animal calls. CD-R.
Soulignement_
Adrian Moore’s works from 2019 to 2024: five wt_ pieces each built from one source (a ceramic pot, a bird whistle, a wine glass, metal sheets, voices) with the same Pure Data toolkit, plus two Sheffield-area site pieces on industrial noise and change…
Interruptions
Five stereo acousmatic works by Manuella Blackburn from 2018 to 2023, made from household sounds, plastic waste and microplastics, a rotary landline and the factory samples and fan noise of a Fairlight CMI. CD-R.