Sculptures
Sculptures is composer and pianist Derek Hunter Wilson’s third solo album, an ode to the ancient and contested shorelines of the Pacific Northwest. Deeply embedded in place, the six longform pieces that make up the album reflect the artist’s journey through grief (including losing his father) and the passage of time, each one built upon loops created from extended sessions with harpist Joshua Ward. Like the foggy, moss-encrusted locations that inspired the album, Sculptures has a timeless feel t…
Wassily Bosch plays Rachel Bonch-Bruevich
*50 copies limited edition* Nazlo Records is excited to announce the release of "Wassily Bosch Plays Rachel Bonch-Bruevich," a remarkable live album that captures the essence of avant-garde and experimental soundscapes. Recorded on July 5, 2025, at the enchanting open-air piano concert held at Palais d’Abraxas in Noisy-le-Grand, Île-de-France, this album is a tribute to the late-Soviet outsider pianist and composer, Rachel Bonch-Bruevich.
The album features three captivating tracks, including tw…
Fleeting Future
*2026 much needed repress!* Akusmi is the new project moniker of French-born, London based composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Pascal Bideau, who signs to the new Tonal Union imprint for the release of his album ‘Fleeting Future.’ With its hallucinatory, genre-defying blend of minimalism, cosmic jazz and Fourth World influences, and in its quest for optimism in the face of unknown and limitless possibility. ‘Fleeting Future’ stands apart as an inventive and inspirational debut. The crea…
Tuscany
*2026 Repress* Los Angeles based pianist, producer, and songwriter John Carroll Kirby traveled to Pietrasanta, Italy in the summer of 2018 on a self-imposed writing trip. During his stay he composed Tuscany, a two side-long solo piano exploration of this particular geographical envelope, a place where nature is shaped into form. Kirby would cycle 12 kilometers each day to Cascata di Malbacco, a waterfall with jade pools and silver stone, and the inspiration for Side A of Tuscany. His own Cascata…
Paper Braids
*200 copies limited edition* "Paper Braids came out of a long collaboration between me and the wonderful musicians of the Kali Ensemble. Through a series of workshops, residencies, and performances over the course of four years, we built up a collective practice focused on three topics: listening as the basis of musical interaction, awareness of how sound interacts with the performance space, and using that spatial awareness as a basis for both the duration of individual sounds and the temporal …
Dotolim (2023)
The score Dotolim was originally realized in 2009 and composed for the performance space Dotolim. The musicians, Jin Sangtae, founder of Dotolim, and Joonyong Choi also performed on the 2009 version of the score. While on tour through Asia in 2023, I spent two nights performing and recording in Seoul at Dotolim. My idea was to realize a new version of the score with the current generation of experimental musicians active in Seoul. And unlike for the first version where I worked with electronics,…
Con Slancio
“These performances, by Heinz Holliger and Marie-Lise Schüpbach, are simply astonishing in their fluency,” wrote UK magazine Gramophone of Holliger’s album Zwiegespräche, and the description applies with equal pertinence to con slancio, with its inspired and inspiring play of energies. The title piece, which opens the programme here, was written by the Swiss composer and nonpareil oboist as a tribute to musical partner Schüpbach: “Since I began playing in duo with Marie-Lise, I’ve been fascinate…
Descendants
Composed especially for the main hall of the Orgelpark in Amsterdam, with its historical organs, Descendants was realized in the just-intonation “Dreyblatt” tuning system, derived from the first eleven harmonic overtones and their extensions based on the fundamental C (A = 415 Hz). The following intervals, identified on the four organs and corresponding to my tuning system, were used in the composition: 1/1, 9/4, 3/2, 7/4, 11/16, 21/16, 25/16, 35/32, 63/32, 77/64, and 81/64. These pitches and th…
Dream Sequence of an Ancient Forest
Dream Sequence of an Ancient Forest gathers pieces composed between 2017 and 2023 into a continuous arc that feels less like a compilation and more like a slow, lucid dream. Across the album, Madli Marje Gildemann listens with almost scientific care to the smallest workings of the natural world – the secret exchanges of plants, the nocturnal trajectories of birds, the micro‑rhythms of an old‑growth forest – then lets imagination bloom around those observations. Her sound world is atmospheric and…
Hermetika IX
Hermetika IX – Vox Angeli II pushes Bernhard Lang’s obsession with loops, fracture and stylistic collision into explicitly metaphysical territory. Centring the female voice, the piece takes its texts from the Nag Hammadi scriptures, a body of early Christian and Gnostic writings in which the tension between spirit and flesh, transcendence and fall, is particularly charged. Across four sharply contrasted movements, Lang treats those texts less as doctrine than as volatile material: sensual biblic…
Across … in Grief and Detail
Across … in grief and detail presents Michael Hersch at his most concentrated and exposed. Composed between two shattering personal crises, these three compact works push his already uncompromising idiom into a realm where every sound feels physically paid for. Writing for soprano, violin and bassoon in shifting combinations, Hersch strips away any sense of orchestral distance; what remains is a chamber theatre of proximity, in which the smallest inflection of the voice, the slightest change in …
Circles / Sequenza I, III, V (LP)
Four important works for solo instruments (flute, voice, trombone) and for female voice, harp and 2 percussionists, spanning from 1958 to 1966, performed by Cathy Berberian and Vinko Globokar a.o., released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. With insert.
Différences / Sequenza III & VII / Due Pezzi / Chamber Music (LP)
Five pieces for solo instruments or small ensembles spanning from 1951 to 1969, recorded under the direction of the composer himself and performed by Cathy Berberian and Heinz Holliger a.o., released on Philips' "Modern Music Series" in 1969.
Recital 1 (For Cathy) (LP)
1973 recital conducted by the composer himself released in the UK on RCA Red Seal in the same year. With insert.
The Many Voices Of Luciano Berio (LP)
Several vocal pieces spanning from 1952 to 1972 performed by the London Sinfonietta conducted by the composer himself, released by RCA Red Seal in 1975. With insert.
A-Ronne / Cries Of London (LP)
Two great vocal pieces from the mid-1970's performed by the Swingle Singers conducted by the composer himself and released on Decca's "Headline" contemporary music series in 1976. With insert.
Nones / Allelujah II / Concerto For Two Pianos (LP)
Three orchestral pieces spanning from 1956 to 1973 conducted by the composer himself and by Pierre Boulez, released on RCA Red Seal in 1976.
Ulisse (3LP box)
Full recording released in 1973 as a lavish 3LP box set by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana of the composer's opera completed in 1968, a summa of his art. With original innersleeves and two booklets.
Tartiniana Seconda / Due Studi / Ciaccona, Intermezzo E Adagio / Parole Di San Paolo (LP)
Four pieces for solo (cello), duo (violin and piano) and ensemble spanning from 1945 to 1964 released on Italia in 1977.
Hanns Eisler (3LP)
3LP set with book-like sleeve released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the mid 1970's with 1971 recordings of several compositions spanning from 1924 to 1957 plus Eisler talking about Hölderlin in 1961.