New Arrivals
Luciano Berio: Chemins
*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its eleventh release »Luciano Berio: Chemins« featuring the WDR Symphony Orchestra and soloists Andreas Mildner, Christophe Desjardins, Andreas Langenbuch, Maarten Dekkers, Pablo Márquez, Martin Griebl and Lutz Koppetsch, and conductors Peter Eötvös, Emilio Pomàrico, Mariano Chiacchiarini, Manuel Nawri, Bas Wiegers, Jean-Michaël Lavoie and Brad Lubman. In addition to the recordings produced by the WDR, this first complete box set of Berio’s Chemins includes…
Pierre Boulez: Constellation-Miroir
*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its sixteenth release »Pierre Boulez: Constellation-Miroir«, the first complete recording of Boulez’s piano works featuring Michael Wendeberg and Nicolas Hodges. Recorded at the Pierre Boulez Saal in co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the box set also includes world premiere recordings of movements from the First and Third Sonata and two versions of Chapitre II from Structures II (all works performed by Wendeberg, joined by Hodges for Structures I &…
Zafraan Ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
Christophe Bertrand: Vertigo*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its fourteenth release »Christophe Bertrand: Vertigo« featuring world premiere recordings by the Zafraan Ensemble, KNM Berlin, WDR Sinfonieorchester, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, with conductors Premil Petrović, Victor Aviat, Brad Lubman, Peter Rundel, Baldur Brönnimann and Emilio Pomàrico. This box set of recordings produced by the WDR, the first complete recording of Bertrand’s instrumental works, also includes an 80-page trilingual booklet (EN, FR, DE) with…
Johannes Schöllhorn: Sérigraphies
*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its twentieth release »Johannes Schöllhorn: Sérigraphies« featuring world premiere recordings by the Zafraan Ensemble, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, DSO Berlin and conductors Manuel Nawri, Jean-Michaël Lavoie, Baldur Brönnimann and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. It includes a multi-faceted selection of Schöllhorn’s works, from original compositions to arrangements of works by Purcell, Bach, Fauré or Satie. In addition to the recordings pr…
Besilvering - Solo, Duo And Ensemble Works
*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its nineteenth release »Luke Bedford: Besilvering« featuring world premiere recordings by the Holst-Sinfonietta and Klaus Simon (conductor). The album includes a selection of Bedford’s instrumental works from 2002 to 2019, from solos to a wide variety of chamber line-ups to an ensemble piece for ten players. In addition to the recordings produced by the SWR, it also contains a 48-page bilingual booklet (EN, DE) with articles by Eckhard Weber, an interview w…
Hope Is The Sister Of Despair
2024 repress. In 2013, Niko Tzoumanis released ‘Hope Is The Sister Of Despair’ on limited CD, issued here on vinyl (2xLP) with 4 previously unreleased tracks. The album was made following the end of a relationship and taps into a rich vein of sequencer romanticism, from Tangerine Dream-obsessed-‘Berlin School’ daydreamers to the whole nebula of music inspired by Warp’s Artificial Intelligence series.
It also looks forward, prefiguring the return today, in troubled times, to the comforting inner…
De Nor 2024
De Nor is a social sculpture made by Dennis Tyfus and FVWW Architects housed at Middelheim Museum / open air sculpture park. When activated it houses concerts performances lectures book- and record presentations and parties, when not activated it remains part of the museum’s collection. For 'De Nor 2024’ compilation LP / DL everyone that is playing at De Nor in the summer of 2024 was asked to submid a recording of maximum 2 minutes in length. Some took the liberty to mess with th…
Soft Power
Ezra Feinberg’s third album Soft Power sees the composer-guitarist enlist an impressive array of fellow musicians including Mary Lattimore, David Moore (Bing & Ruth), Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Robbie Lee and share the life affirming lead single ‘Future Sand’.
Defined by its abundance of melodies, repeating figures and ecstatic improvisations, Soft Power exudes an enlightened and transformative spirit to empower the listener. Feinberg, a practising psychoanalyst and former founding member of the San …
Chitarre Folk
Huge Tip! One of the furthest experiments in library music, first official vinyl reissue under Sonor Music Production license. ‘Chitarre Folk’ was conceived in July 1974 and produced by the small publishing company Nike, the album is brilliantly propelled by the two six-string players Bruno Battisti D’Amario and Silvano Chimenti (long-time collaborator of I Gres, Pulsar and Piero Umiliani E La Sua Orchestra), touching avant-folk themes surrounded by Maestro Sandro Brugnolini’s lush arrangements …
Nothing's Wrong
Tip! Just continue as usual.
Recorded June to September '22 for a 16 channel diffusion at Bellevaux Lausanne 23 September '22
Revamped for stereo '23
All recorded and decomposed by Dave Phillips
Thank you Francisco Meirino, Gwen Grossfeld, Guillermo Pizarro
Associated Sine Tone Services
Associated Sine Tone Services (ASTS) is a new conceptual collaboration between analog oscillator wielders. This record was entirely generated using sine wave oscillators and an array of electronic filters, stacks, and processing. Although this project initially started with a bouquet of material put forth by Young to start, each track would eventually coalesce around the vision and momentum of one of the members individually, creating pocket productions that make the album in full, a diverse com…
They Pass By, Barely Showing Themselves - I, II, III
OORT is a project born in Turin between 2019 and 2020 from the meeting of two artistic personalities active in many projects (experimental, noise, improvisation, free jazz, jazz core). The two musicians decide to begin a journey as a duo to implement a personal aesthetic / musical synthesis having noted the great elective affinity matured in the years of collaboration prior to the birth of the project OORT. A multiform language, where improvisation becomes a vehicle of instantaneous composition …
Variaciones Sobre Las Instrucciones
*250 copies limited edition* Alvear, Bondi & d'incise consists of Cristián Alvear from Chile, and Cyril Bondi and d'incise from Switzerland. The three musicians collaborate frequently in duo and trio formats. This album documents a duo performance by Alvear (guitar) and d’incise (vibraphone, electronics) of “Sleepless Night” (2022), a work by Spanish composer/sound artist Clara de Asís; and a trio performance by Alvear (guitar), Bondi (vibraphone) and d’incise (electronics) of “uno, dos o tres e…
Masahiko Okura / Naoto Yamagishi / Fumi Endo
*250 copies limited edition* Masahiko Okura, a reed instrument player and composer who has been performing actively since the 1990s, has previously released a number of solo and collaborative albums on Ftarri’s sister labels, Hitorri and Meenna. Percussionist Naoto Yamagishi lived in Europe for several years in the 2010s, and since then has been engaged in wide-ranging activities inside and outside Japan, frequently carrying out overseas tours and organizing concerts in Japan featuring musicians…
Utopian Air
*2024 stock. 250 copies limited edition* Beau Beaumont is a sound artist based in Liverpool, England. In summer 2023 she spent two months on a residency program in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture. During that period she invited Tokyo-based musicians Leo Okagawa and Masatake Abe to make a recording with her at her Matsudo accommodation, "Paradise Air." This CD’s one track is 60 minutes, 10 seconds long. Beau Beaumont and Okagawa use electronics, while Abe plays electric bass. The music’s core is a powe…
Memory Is A Poet, Spinning Stories
*2024 stock. 250 copies limited edition* Born in 1964, Tetuzi Akiyama is a guitarist/improviser active inside and outside Japan. Masahide Tokunaga, who was born in 1982, is an always-original alto sax player. Masatake Abe, born in 1993, is an innovative electric bass player on the jazz/improvised music scene. These three musicians of different generations performed together at Ftarri, Tokyo, on June 6, 2021. This CD contains two improvised pieces (about 25 minutes each) from that concert.This is…
They appear on the circuit from which we disappeared
*250 copies limited edition* Ai Watanabe is a Tokyo-based composer. After studying at Tokyo College of Music’s graduate school, she went to France and completed a graduate program at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris, and subsequently earned a doctoral degree at Tokyo University of the Arts. In recent years Watanabe has been focusing on electroacoustic music using field recordings as additional materials, earning high praise inside and outside Japan. Kokichi Yanagisawa is a guita…
El Amigo
*200 copies limited edition* Aquiles Hadjis was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela. In 2009 he moved to Tokyo, and in 2017 he received a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the Department of Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts. Still based in Tokyo, he is engaged in creative work in the fields of film, painting and music. Antonio Mazzei, also from Venezuela, is a pianist and composer. He studied with Fred Hersch and Kevin Hays at New York's New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and has since continued …