Experimental / Contemporary

*2026 repress* On his debut album “Scattered Memories”, the composer, musician and true master on the Iranian spike fiddle kamancheh Saba Alizadeh blends his instrumental virtuosity with spherical electronics, samples of Persian music instruments and field recordings from his hometown Tehran. Born in Tehran in 1983 as son of the world renowned Tar and Setar virtuoso Hossein Alizadeh, Saba Alizadeh studied the Iranian spike fiddle with Saeed Farajpoury and Keyhan Kalhor plus photography and later…

1999 re-issue on Blue Chopsticks of the EMI LP with two landmark instrumental compositions respectively from 1967 and 1970.

Excellent 2008 CD-only release on Robot of the 2000 piece for for memorized sounds coupled with the only CD re-issue of the 1968 recording of the 1967 piece for 4 soloists and 16 instruments.

2004 CD-only release on Sub Rosa of the evocative 2002 radio piece composed using recordings made during trips.

Wonderful symphony for 17 instruments and memorized sounds composed in 1998, performed by Ars Nova Ensemble and released by L'Empreinte Digitale in 2013 as a set including a DVD with Jacqueline Caux's film of the perfomance plus estras.

2007 CD with two very early GRM tape pieces plus the 1996 radio play Selbsportait available only here, released as volume 4 of the Sonopsys book+CD magazine published by Licences in a limited edition of 500 copies. Rare.

2006 CD-only release on Césaré with the Laborintus Ensemble performing 1977 piece for tape and orchestra and the 2005 "Archives sauvées des eaux" for two CDs & orchestra with eRikm.

Long in-depth interviews with the composer by friend and film-director Jacqueline Caux. French text.

2007 expanded edition of the 2001 INA-GRM book, first volume of the "Polychrome Portraits" series, with three essays on the composer plus a biographical catalogue. French text.

Enlightening collection of manuscripts edited by Brunhild Ferrari and Jérôme Hansen, with a preface by Jim O'Rourke, published in 2017. French text.

Beautiful book+DVD documentation of the 2018 performance in Milano of the 1969 open piece, organised by Sergio Armaroli and Steve Piccolo, featuring Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari, Walter Prati, Francesca Gemmo and other musicians.

*300 copies limited edition* The incomparable voice performer Tenko has been performing energetically inside and outside Japan since the 1980s. Satoko Fujii has been engaged in successful activities as a jazz pianist, composer and big band leader since the 1990s. Toshimaru Nakamura, who was a central figure of the so-called Onkyo movement on the cutting edge of the improvised music scene from the end of the 1990s to the early 2000s, is the pioneer of mixer feedback noise performance. Ten-Toh-Mar…

Absolutely fantastic 1981 composition for 5 choirs, 2 double basses, 2 percussionists, 2 kettledrums and electronic tape, released on Harmonia Mundi's "Evénement / Musique française d'aujourd'hui" series in 1984.

Three excellent compositions spanning from 1968 to 1978 respectively for string trio and for for 2 electric guitars, 2 ondes Martenot, 2 electric organs and synthesisers, released on Sapphos's "Musique Française d'Aujourd'hui" series in 1978.

Three compositions spanning from 1967 to 1971 requiring improvisation and extended instrumental techniques, respectively for 20 musicians and a soloist, 9 brass instruments and 3 percussions, solo oboe, released in 1972.

Two pieces for solo trombone plus one for 2 clarinets, with unconventional and extended instrumental techniques and sounding quite amazing, composed in 1973 and 1974 and featuring Michel Portal, released in 1978.

One 1965 composition for three choirs, orchestra and narrator and one 1972 composition for eight singers and two instruments, recorded and released in Yugoslavia in 1983.

Three chamber pieces (respectively for 5 oboes, solo percussionist, string quartet) with unconventional and extended instrumental techniques, spanning from 1969 to 1982, released in 1985

Two versions of Miroglio's excellent composition for percussion ensemble, performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourd and released on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series. Black labels.

Excellent LP on INA's "Collection GRM" with four beautiful electro-acoustic pieces realized between 1969 and 1977 at Bell Laboratories and IRCAM by computer music pioneer, released in 1978.

Great avant-garde percussion music by a composer mainly known for his library work, a 1978 album on the short-lived Arc En Ciel's "Espaces" experimental music series with embossed sleeves.

*2025 stock* "In experimental music, artists are often praised for taking risks, yet it's seldom that the conditions that inspire and enable their plunges into yet-unknown realms are discussed. The powerful music found on Hopeful Monster, the partnership between acclaimed Toronto-based pianist Eve Egoyan and Costa Rican-born, British composer-musician Mauricio Pauly (who now lives and works in Vancouver), is a testament to the vitality of these very conditions. Their collaboration began in 2018 …

Another great LP on INA's "Collection GRM" with pieces for various combinations of instruments and electronics, released in 1979.

1969 LP on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series with contemporary music for percussion played by Les Percussions De Strasbourg. Rare edition with grey cover and black labels.

Drummer/composer Booker Stardrum delivers a new powerful solo album Close-up On The Outside (27th Feb 2026), his first for We Jazz Records. The new record sees Stardrum (also a member of SML) doubling down on the earthy tactility of human sound and communication while also exploring rich, electroacoustic landscapes. The album, released on LP and digitally, involves Stardrum's close collaborators Anna Butterss, Jeremiah Chiu, Chris Williams, Lester St. Louis, Logan Hone and Michael Coleman. While…

This record shouldn’t, strictly speaking, be possible at all.

*100 copies limited edition* Solo Suono is the first collaboration between saxophonist Filippo Ansaldi and electronic musician Simone Sims Longo, both based in Cuneo, Italy. Solo Suono is an album between acoustic gesture and electronic treatment, beyond the classical while starting from the classical. Breath, amplified mechanics, residual sounds, expressive freedom, and different forms that integrate electroacoustic composition. Passing through looped gestures, electronic processes, and concret…

Any sense of where we were gone is music obsessed with the infinite within the minute, with the mercurial, breakable, with shifting, sifting, cohering, and digressing. It is an improvisational framework in five parts for chamber ensembles, prepared piano, and electronics, written for and played here by my good friends. It steals inspiration from postmodern fiction, obscure geometry textbooks, and poems about time. This is a live recording of the first performance “To do. To do something, to do g…

*100 copies limited edition* A handbag purchased in Tokyo in the early 2000s reappears in the present, containing a series of personal items: a T-shirt, a CD, five cassettes, and three mini-DVs. Sifting through the material, Barbara Signer rediscovers all kinds of forgotten memories and hidden traces of the past. While the video cassettes were recorded in the streets of Tokyo at the turn of the millennium, the audio tapes contain music from Nick Kamen to Vivaldi, as well as the artist’s own voice…

A Few We Remember is the new album by Jonah Parzen-Johnson and Lau Nau. The recording debut for the new duo of Finnish composer Lau Nau, aka Laura Naukkarinen, and American baritone saxophonist Jonah Parzen-Johnson, it cycles between moments of knotty ambience, whispered melody, and innocent tinkering, as the duo improvises over 8 narrative scores composed by Parzen-Johnson. Jonah Parzen-Johnson says: “For me, telling a story is about more than sharing a set of facts. A well told story is the pr…

Soufflements Cardinaux invites the listener into a cartography of breath: Ensemble In(dé)fini map the four directions through extended techniques, hushed noise and prismatic overtones. Winds, strings and electronics trace invisible weather systems, turning each exhalation into a fragile, shifting architecture of sound.

For Sara(.es), who has resonated with numerous musicians, this is a special solo live recording, her first in about a year. Weaving together the sounds of bells, water-emitting instruments, harmonica, crystal bowls, triangle, and more, an energy-filled piano solo unfolds. From 1 May to 14 June 2025, the solo exhibition ‘Prayer’ by artist Keiichi Ikegami was held at Gallery Nomaru, the home of .es (dot es) and the base for Utsunomiya MIX. Following the sudden passing of Satoshi Hayashi, former di…

January 2025, Osaka contemporary art gallery ‘Gallery Nomart’ hosted Hideo Takashima's solo exhibition ‘Fill with Empty’. This was Takashima's first exhibition at Nomart, and featured the first live collaboration between British heavyweight drummer/percussionist Roger Turner and sara (.es). The exhibition title ‘Fill with Empty’ refers to ‘a state filled with margins that contain diverse possibilities,’ according to Takashima. Takashima explains that the exhibition title, ‘Fill witt Empty’, refe…

Australian, Copenhagen-based composer Calum Builder delves into a sonic journey inside the body of his dismantled pipe organ.

*100 copies limitede edition* Experimental guitarist Christoph Götzen proudly presents Transmission - Live In New York, a powerful new live album that captures the raw energy and intricate textures of his latest performances in the iconic city. Recorded in front of an enthusiastic audience, this album showcases Götzen’s masterful blend of electric soundscapes, abstract rhythms, extended techniques and immersive atmospheres.

Studio Mule is proud to present the first-ever vinyl edition of Banka, the 1991 CD-only masterpiece by Shinsuke Honda. Renowned as the guitarist of the legendary band Hachimitsu Pie, Honda’s work on the album Silence is widely celebrated as one of the most remarkable achievements in Japanese ambient guitar jazz. Now, with this release, Banka joins that legacy on a beautifully crafted double LP. Building upon the spirit of Silence while exploring new depths of refinement and sound, Banka offers a…

*100 copies limited edition. 2CD edition contains the entire album, LP contains only the Maria Chávez recordings* Big tip! Repeat Until True works to build a musical ontology. This is a collection of recordings made by Zach Cooper, Odeya Nini, and Maria Chávez. It’s an exercise in composition via rule-based improvisation using contrabass, the human voice, and turntables. Taken one step further, the contrabass and voice versions were committed to vinyl and used as score and material for Chávez’s …

Norwich trio Germ Lattice - Joe Barton, Micky Donnelly & Louie Rice - follow 2024’s Gipping Through the Ages LP with Corpusty, written in a new studio, poised to watch the demolition of their old space from across the street. Each track unfolds in real time, combining bass, drums, voice and synthesiser with live tape manipulation, performance and playback is blurred into one shifting surface. Corpusty moves slowly through collapse and renewal, ending with the thirteen-minute drift of Old Glory f…

Tip! Welcome to the 20th Century: "My point of departure for the octet was to treat the ensemble as a flock of clarinets and develop swarm-like scenarios. At the same time, I thought of the 8 players as a kind of acoustic 8-channel-installation with the musicians surrounding the audience. This could be seen as an expansion of the stereo analogy we sometimes work with in The International Nothing. While The Nothin’ is all about developing a very personal language of new sounds with self-invented …

"Richiamare" is an attempt to create a bridge to the past, a connection between absence and precariousness as a vivid action of the present. The French Suite No. 3 by J.S. Bach is a piece that accompanied me for many years during my growth and studies as a musician. It made me confront the difficulties of the instrument, the need for dedication and the tendency to reach a higher stage of awareness. Many years later, that same piece resonates in my memory in a different way. It has created its ow…