★Brocoli
Phonotopies (Paris)
Tip! that bring together two established composers for the first time. On one side (who knows if it is side A or side B?) we find Silvain Vanot, who was at the forefront of 90s French indie rock alongside the likes of Dominique A and Jean-Louis Murat…
Rhapsodie sur Fond Vert
Six long years have passed since Pierre-Yves Macé's last album on John Zorn's prestigious Composer Series. In the meantime, the talented composer has been working hard and has gained eminence in the world of contemporary music. He has produced works …
Inevitable Music #5
**300 copies** Inevitable Music is a collection of pieces based on the work of American artist Sol Lewitt, begun by Sébastien Roux in 2012. Each piece is a sonic translation of a wall drawing using Lewitt's instructions for the realization of the dra…
Quator
Sébastien Roux's new album is an ambitious work of musique concrète. Like the title track of his previous album More Songs, Quatuor is based on Beethoven's 10th string quartet. The sonic material of the piece is culled from arrangements of the origin…
Musiques concretes 1988-91
Brocoli continues to unearth Michel Chion’s unreleased gems, after the concrete melodrama Tu and the collection of early works Musiques Concrètes 1970-71. This time it focuses on the period from 1988 to 1991, starting with 10 études de musique concrè…
How To Live In Small Spaces
His new solo instrumental album. The album title is taken from two long pieces inthe work; new versions of compositions for Christian Rizzo choreography. Reminiscent of Morton Feldman, time is suspended to the unresolved piano chords. Each one if fol…
Musiques concretes 1970-71
Brocoli is pleased to announce the release of seven early works by Michel Chion, the celebrated musique concrète composer. Composed before he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in 1971 his characteristic style and sounds are already …
Kogetsudai
Kogetsudai is Sylvain Chauveau's 10th album, the second in a trilogy initiated by Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) (2010), where the song structure is dismantled and reconstructed on the fringe of silence. Whereas Singular Forms found inspiration …
Miniatures - Songs recycle
Pierre-Yves Macé is a young French composer, he was born in 1980, but has already released four albums on respected labels including Tzadik and Sub Rosa. Miniatures - Song Recycle is his second album for the Parisian imprint Brocoli, following the …
La vie en prose
Outstanding!!! La vie en prose is Michel Chion's first musical work composed in the 2000s. Thanks to musique concrète ways and means, it fulfils the composer's childhood dream of composing a Symphony of Energy in four movements of sharp contrasts. Th…
The absence
“The Absence is a 7” single, a collaboration between Rainier Lericolais and Sylvain Chauveau, released on February 2011 for Abstracks, Rainier's exhibition at Le Confort Moderne (Poitiers, France). The two tracks on The Absence were built from Sylvai…
La chambre claire
Quentin Sirjacq, a native of Paris, is a young composer, best known in the free improvisation scene for his collaboration with Joëlle Léandre. The album aesthetic is reminiscent of 19th and 20th centuries’ French literature (Barthes, Baudelaire), Ame…
Passagenweg
After three albums on Tzadik, Sub Rosa and Orkhêstra, setting instrumental compositions - or improvisations - for small ensembles against electroacoustic treatments, the young French composer Pierre-Yves Macé now presents his first full-scale work of…
Second souffle
Brocoli will release Second Souffle, the second album of the trio ON (distribution : Metamkine, Cod&S, Ear-Rational). ON was born in July 2003 with the meeting of Chicago-based Steven Hess and French musician Sylvain Chauveau when they joined for a l…
TU
BROCOLI is proud to release Michel chion's masterpiece, his concrete melodrama TU. Composed in 1977 and reworked in 1996, it is now available for the first time on record for Mozart Year 2006! Indeed, TU's Franco-German libretto is based both on the …