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Lasting Clinamen
"Lasting Clinamen is another step further in one of the most adventurous Polish experimental musician's quest for new sounds. In the four pieces on this CD Robert Piotrowicz takes his explorations of modular analogue synthesiser to a new level. While…
Docteur Kramer
Two pieces of musique concrete. Docteur Kramer (2002-2004). One composition of Lionel Marchetti. Zizi (2001-2002). One composition of Emmanuel Petit and Lionel Marchetti.
Attuning / attending
The first release of Musica Genera's new series which is dedicated to music of from improvisation of improvisers contexts.Zbigniew Karkowski's solo album brings one over 50 minutes long piece. On this CD Karkowski shows himself on composition and mor…
Connector
Tracks 1. 2. 3 recorded Aug., Sept. 2004 at studio NOEMA Buenos Aires, performed/composed by Alan Courtis, Jaime Genovart, Zbigniew Karkowski and Pablo Reche.Track 4 recorded Aug., Sept. 2004 at studio NOEMA Buenos Aires, performed/composed by Jaime …
RFG Inventions for Cello and Computer
Remarkable collaboration between inventor, synth pioneer and EMS co-founder Peter Zinovieff and preeminent cellist Lucy Railton, capturing a life-altering dialogue between two figures with a more than 50-year age gap between them, and with very littl…
Not Linear
**100 copies, coloured vinyl** The collaboration between Gino Pavan and Guido Frezzato began in 1995, with the creation of the soundtrack of Giancarlo Marinelli's movie Scano Boa - Dannazione.Gino Pavan recorded and produced, in his own "Noi Studio",…
Weird Times
**2020 stock, highly recommended** Matt Jencik is a musician based in Chicago. His most recent band, Implodes, released two albums with the label Kranky earlier on this decade and Jencik has been performing and recording since the early nineties in b…
Farol
**200 copies** "Farol is the sound portrait of a monumental architecture : the 25 Abril bridge in Lisbon. The 25 Abril bridge is a symbol for the Portuguese capital. Visible to tens kilometers around, it serves as a visual and noisy landmark. As we c…
Woodland Sigil
**200 copies** "During the summer of 2017 my girlfriend and I drove through the heart of Sweden. For the first time ever on a holiday, I took my hand-held recorder with me to record some of the sounds Sweden had to offer. In the course of 2 weeks we …
Being There
**170 copies** "This album is a field recording. It’s a field recording of me recording music. It’s a recording of my room and the street outside. One track was recorded in the morning during a holiday, the other on a weekday afternoon. In a way, all…
Something Veiled
**175 copies** "This work consists of recorded materials at ‘Abukuma’ and ‘Irimizu’ limestone caves on Abukuma highland, Fukushima. Water is plentiful there, and we can see a long waterfall near our route in Irimizu limestone cave. Both caves are dev…
Mountains and Waters
**200 copies** "Mountains and Waters is an elegy to the Holocene epoch and to the quiet places that have been lost. The Holocene reaches back some 11,700 years when the last of the glacial cycles began to fade and the planet began to warm again. Sinc…
Tombland
**200 copies** "Tombland at night or day, at certain times, feels like a ghost-town. One moment I am swept up by the passing traffic, in another I have turned into a side street and there is nothing but a throbbing stillness that meanders through the…
Reclaim
**150 copies** "Reclaim brings to mind two classic pop songs: Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” (1970) and Talking Heads’ “Nothing But Flowers” (1988).  In the first, “they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”  In the second, “this used to be re…
Bourdon du Kinzie
**200 copies** "Bourdon du Kinzie (N° 3 from N° 1), 48°08’33” N 122°45’39” W is a recording of an acoustic space, recorded on a January afternoon within adjoined bunkers, inside of a defunct munitions battery near Port Townsend, WA. The acoustics wit…
Our Seasons Reverse
**200 copies** "For my collaborative piece Our Seasons Reverse I used recordings captured in Waziers, Saint Nazaire, Calais, Lille, Roubaix, Paris, London between 2017 and 2018. These recordings compiled a number of events that included museum visits…
In​[​Core​]​Wat​[​t]
**200 copies** "For the past three years, living in Cambodia gave me the opportunity to visit traditional Buddhist Temples across different areas of the country. These edifices are dedicated to spiritual practices, studies ,worship and serve as moral…
Ondureñas
**200 copies** "In darkness, with the shadows of the forest, bite of the plant is the tear. Intimate inner worlds and the surrounding materiality dance in unison. They snake through realities at the speed of blood. Blood is the vine. Vine bites the f…
Sound Diary of Quiet Pedestrians
**200 copies** "This project represents a distillation of our field recording and life adventures during the course of 5 years that we have known each other. Over those years, we’ve spent countless hours on field recording missions, recording session…
Imbrication
**150 copies** "The Verde River Valley is located in central Arizona, in a transition zone between low desert to the south and high mountains to the north. It has been my home for the past 17 years. Walking though the uninhabited areas outside of tow…