Meditative
Au Nom Deus Asos
Elizabeth Vogler sings in Occitan and other South-West dialects to harmonium alone in the church of Lescun, in the Pyrénées: six songs between ancient folk and experimental music, first time on vinyl, 100 copies.
Occam Ocean 1-4
The first four volumes of Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean on five CDs: solos, chamber pieces and orchestra, all shaped through oral transmission around images of water. Bundle of four Shiiin releases.
The Great Learning
All seven Paragraphs of Cardew's The Great Learning by the Scratch Orchestra Strasbourg under Didier Aschour, an orchestra born from an open call and two years of shared practice: 4CD box with a 116-page booklet.
Occam Ocean Vol. 2
Second instalment of Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean, a long suite for the 30-piece ONCEIM orchestra conducted by Frédéric Blondy: accordion, guitars, clarinets, saxophones, strings and brass merged into one slowly breathing tone.
Occam Ocean Vol. 1
First instalment of Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean on two CDs: five solo, duo and trio pieces for harp, viola, birbyné and bass clarinet with Rhodri Davies, Julia Eckhardt and Carol Robinson. With a 40-page booklet.
Asiago
New music for cello from the Asiago plateau and its Cimbrian community, by De Marzi, Gárdonyi, Sollima, Schmitt, Dreyer, Ali-Zadeh and Silvestrov, played by Julius and Hyun-Jung Berger with guests; mostly first recordings.
Flying Dreams
Spencer Clark returns as Monopoly Child with five electronic sound paintings inspired by Rome's Villa Borghese gardens: distorted voices, transformed bells and luminous synthesizers as a manual of levitation magic.
Contemplations
Emma Margetson's Contemplations: nine acousmatic works from 2014 to 2022 on the passing of time, from a ticking metronome and a suspended cymbal to a bicycle in Hamburg’s Elbe tunnel and chalk on paper after a Wyndham Lewis sketch. CD-R.
Anima Pepsi + The Days Pass Quickly (2LP Bundle)
The two new Blume LPs together: David Tudor's Anima Pepsi, composed for the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70, and Lea Bertucci's The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, written for Norbert Rodenkirchen's flutes.
X3 / Phonophani - Until the Fish Eyes Shine
Split LP in the Portraits GRM series: Amina Hocine blends sine waves, field recordings and her own foghorn organ in X3, while Espen Sommer Eide revisits his Phonophani years and the Tromsø ambient techno scene of the late 1990s.
The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity
Commissioned by ZKM Karlsruhe, Lea Bertucci's work for flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen sets his Renaissance, Medieval and Neolithic flutes inside electronic process: an electroacoustic piece that sounds like an ensemble reaching across centuries.
Erthion
Maurizio Bianchi's Erthion, first issued by Young Girls Records in 2010, back on CDr: eight tracks titled after verses of the biblical Lamentations, about an hour, mastered by Pharmakustik. 30 copies with mini poster.
Radio Meditation
A generative system set loose on BBC Radio 3: Jasper Marsalis lets a microcomputer photograph and crossfade the radio's spectrum into an ever-shifting chord of 2048 voices, after Pauline Oliveros and Luigi Russolo.
Ananta: Spirit of Coltrane
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson marks John Coltrane's centennial on Impulse! with a 21-piece collective (Brandee Younger, Shabaka Hutchings, Flying Lotus, Jeff Parker, Azar Lawrence), recasting Naima, Giant Steps and A Love Supreme as cosmic, spiritual music.
Abhaile
Compositions by Finola Merivale for field recordings and electronics, with Catherine Sikora's tenor saxophone moving through shifting sonic environments between stark minimalism and dense, evocative layers.
...Is In the Air
Jessica Pavone's sixth solo viola album builds on the open strings and their sympathetic resonances, with electronic effects as a playing partner and guest appearances by Fred Frith on guitar and Joe Lally on bass.
Prisoner's Cinema
Second duo LP by Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause: two sidelong pieces grown from a live work played in darkness, singing bowls, gongs and double bass drifting into waltz-like pulses and field recordings. Numbered edition of 200.
Let the Power Fall
The 2021 David Singleton remaster of Fripp's 1981 Frippertronics album, on CD for the first time in decades, with three extra tracks found during the work on the Exposures box.
Washington Square Church
The Frippertronics residency of July and August 1981 in New York, on CD with a DVD carrying the same material in 24/48 hi-res stereo and DTS-HD surround, in digipak with slipcase.
Feldman Edition 15: Morton Feldman Plays Feldman
Morton Feldman plays piano in a 1978 Deutschlandfunk concert recorded in Cologne, with flutist Eberhard Blum and percussionist Jan Williams: Why Patterns?, Extensions 3, Intermission 5 and The King of Denmark.