Esplendor Geométrico's second album from 1985, from their noisiest and harshest period: subsonic drones, minimal machine rhythms and distorted melodies. Expanded with a second LP of the Bruitiste tracks and rarities, remastered in 2026.
Ikeda's op.6 for ten players and 100 cymbals set in a 10 x 10 grid, performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg. Commissioned for the LA Phil's centennial, it is the near-silent answer to his earlier piece for 100 cars.
The pianist and composer Javad Maroufi (Tehran, 1925-1993) is the great interpreter of Iranian classical music. His repertoire defines a precise encounter between Western classical music and the traditional folklore of his homeland. Through his academic training, he absorbed the lessons of the works of Chopin, Mozart, Bach and Beethoven, but his refined pianism echoes and reinterprets the popular melodies of ancient Iran. A profound and delicate song of the drama of life, between joys and sorrow…
Tulei is a project born in Milan out of the friendship and collaboration between saxophonist Andrea “Jimmy” Catagnoli and Davide Domenichini of Al Doum & The Faryds. The album features a distinct spiritual jazz sound in which the saxophone takes center stage, but without sinking into the roots of the more canonical free jazz approach of legends like Archie Schepp, Alice Coltrane, or Pharoah Sanders. Rather, the sound draws on more personal, elegiac and minimalist atmospheres, often with a visual…
Piero Piccioni's music for Folco Quilici's aerial documentaries L'Italia Vista Dal Cielo, from the Lazio, Lombardia and Toscana episodes: jazz-inflected orchestral writing and lyrical themes. First time on vinyl, 300 copies.