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Music For A Different Room
*2024 stock* This album is dedicated to Rosetta Barabino: grandmother, art collector and sparkle of the fire that still burns in the family. This is a collection of material prepared for exhibitions,dance, visual art and theatre pieces; mostly home s…
Sessione Pre Angiou
*2024 stock* "In late February we played our first concert together in a wonderful space in Savignone Liguria near the town of Busalla about an hour from Genova. A beautiful old barn or cascina as it is called in Liguria , Cascina Pre Angiou run by A…
Lonely Hymns and Pillars of Emptiness
*2024 stock* The debut release by Slovenian musical polymath Iztok Koren, best known for his work in avantefolk outfits Širom, Škm banda and Hexenbrutal. Made in the heat of 2020’s lockdown, Iztok transmutes the intensity of the period into 6 pieces …
Genius Loci
*Limited Edition* Here we have two saxophone masters questioning space through sound and movement, and working in the most inspirational place. "Locus" Puget-ville is a small village in the south France countryside, among vineyards and woods. It's al…
Losing your bearings in the middle of the day
*Limited Edition* A genuine diary of simple music elements, a minimalistic painting, but then you drop the paint can. Colors start to melt and shapes lose their boundaries, you fight to maintain focus on a single element but your eyes (ears) have los…
Quasi Vicino
Limited Edition Maurizio and Edo confirm their long time presence in Genoa's underground scene, pushing their exploration across boundaries: they're more than a band, considering the incredibly long, prolific and weird creativity characterizing St.ri…
Uragano
Ramble and Torto Editions (Italy) are thrilled to be co- leasing Uragano by Perforto - a string duo for electric guitar and grand prepared piano (wood, metal, paper and other materials).
Praznina / Emptiness
*150 copies limited edition* Emptiness is the second solo record by multi-instrumentalist Iztok Koren, a member of the bands Širom, Škm banda and Hexenbrutal. A result of an outpouring of pent-up creative energy, the album came about after a last-min…
All The Way Down
Limited Edition "Snapshots, pictures, glimpses of life and notes on a crumpled sheet. Framing memories to keep them, mostly remembering those that are less important. Unconscious moments, instants that didn't have attention that unexpectedly resurfac…
Microstorie
*Limited Edition* Far from the brightest spots in the hype system, hailing from the western genovese area, St.Ride is an eclectic duo, experimenting obscure, disturbing and twisted sides of electronic/ambient music since 2001.There's an irrational st…
S/t
*Limited Edition* This is the first full-length by the genovese based experimental collective TRÓNCO. Originally live recorded in studio during the summer of 2020, the album has been mixed by Tommaso Rolando and mastered by Domiziano Maselli. It’s a …
Duemiladiciotto
*Handmade Limited Edition* Davide Merlino and Tommaso Rolando have a common interest in improvisation, crazy music and sound manipulation. They also curate releases with Floating Forest and Torto Editions.
I.
Originally released in 2016 by Klopotec and ZARŠ on cd, Širom first album “I”, will see the light again on a double gatefold vinyl, including two unreleased magical tracks from the same record session, out via Torto Editions. The metaphysic and the…
Do. So
Tommaso Rolando and Jean Renè met thanks to Paul Goodwin (front cover painter) and Paolo Bonfiglio. After some live experiences together, in June 2018 they decided to try to record something: the result of a short term session eventually ended with a…
Cepi Meets Hic
"Cepi is a solid reality located in the south of France. It’s Barre Phillips’ vision about improvisation. It can be flexible about the team but not about the idea above it all. Hic stands for Hidden Improvisers Consort; it’s a study group under the g…
Volume 1
Musical seed from the febrile imagination of composer / bassist / freer-than-free alto saxophonist Stefano Scarella (ex- Promenade), nurtured by the twin talents of rosenwinkelite / chorinho zealot Mario de Simoni and Nornthern Irish multi-instru/men…