The Night's Remains (LP)
Rare 1982 original copy on Trinciato Forte Records of the first A.T.R.O.X. album of excellent experimental electronic new wave predating the Doubling Riders.
Water Tales (LP)
Rare 1984 original copy with gatefold insert of the second A.T.R.O.X. album (and the first LP released by Contempo) of excellent experimental electronic new wave predating the Doubling Riders.
Confusional Quartet (10")
Original copy of the weird and brilliant 1981 10"EP on Italian Records by the most original band of the early Italian experimental new wave.
Crollo Nervoso (LP)
First edition on white vinyl released in 1980 by Italian Records of one of the most outstanding and amazing albums from the early 80's by one of the most original avant-garde post-modern theatre groups, using voices, electronics and fragments of Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Billie Holliday, Brion Gysin, Jon Hassel, Miles Davis, David Byrne. With original innersleeve and official Magazzini Generali stamps on front and back cover (only a few copies had these).
Lazare
Original 1986 first LP with original innersleeve on Industrie Discografiche Lacerba of dark electronic art-wave music produced and featuring Tuxedomoon's Steven Brown.
Ciels
It is our honor to present the seventh album by French composer Jean-Baptiste Favory, whose work we first encountered while reissuing a record with the Mexican art collective, Los Lichis. J-B made an annual trip to Mexico to participate in Los Lichis’s musical and visual anarchy (Dog 2LP FTR229, Savage Lichis Religion : El Ultimo Grito LP FTR354), and was considered a full member of this estimable outfit.
We soon discovered he was also the France’s long-running experimental radio show Epsilonia…
Forest Lifes: "New" Dream World
The mixtape has long been a central facet of Seth Price’s practice, from his compilations of New Jack Swing, industrial, and early video game music contextualized with essays as part of his Title Variable project to his soundtracks for fashion shows. Assembled in the spirit of the eclectic mixes he regularly posts on his SoundCloud page, Casual Holiday is a genre-trotting bricolage of music by Amancio D’Silva, Roy Montgomery, Nancy Dupree with a group of Rochester, NY youngsters, and more. Price…
Collapsing Tape: Experiments in Rupture and Repair
"Collapsing Drums tells the stories that matter in a post-pandemic world" - The Wire Collapsing Tape is a sprawling 23 track compilation which celebrates 5 years of the Collapsing Drums label via a diverse pool of artists working across experimental music. It’s really hard to condense the amount of sounds going on in the 90 minutes — but here’s a brief attempt: there’s abstract vocal play (Elaine Mitchener), warm squishy electronics (Luke Sanger), frenetic turntablism (Mariam Rezaei and Dali de …
Espaces Inhabitables / Démeures Acquatiques / Medisances / Variations en Etoile / Capture Ephémère (2 reel-to reel tapes)
Amazing find: two reel to reel tapes with electro-acoustic compositions from 1967-1969 made at GRM (apparently by Bernard Parmegiani) and destined to be used for public or private listening, coming from composer Franca Sacchi's archive of tapes for her listening sessions in Milano around 1969/1970. With cyclostyled/typewritten notes about the pieces and the composers.
Dou Dou Doudo: Ao Vivo Na Cooperativa Árvore
*300 copies limited edition* Audio taken from a live performance by Anar Band (Jorge Lima Barreto and Rui Reininho) with E.M. de Melo e Castro in November of 1978 at Cooperativa Árvore, Porto. The performance was filmed. A segment was included in »Obrigatório Não Ver«, a weekly programme presented by Ana Hatherly on Public Television’s Second Channel. It was not possible to determine the exact date of the event, and no documentation seems to be available in the relevant archives. »Encontro que T…
Interrupteur / Tautologos 3 (CD)
1999 re-issue on Blue Chopsticks of the EMI LP with two landmark instrumental compositions respectively from 1967 and 1970.
Chansons Pour Le Corps / Et Si Tout Entière Maintenant (CD)
Two intriguing late 1980's pieces respectively for voice and instruments and a symphonic tale with memorized sounds released on Mode in 2002.
Archives Génétiquement Modifiées / Société II (CD)
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.
Chantal (CD)
2004 CD-only release on Avatar/OHM of the touching 1978 portrait of a villager in collaboration with Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari.
Les Anecdotiques (CD)
2004 CD-only release on Sub Rosa of the evocative 2002 radio piece composed using recordings made during trips.
Symphonie Déchirée (CD+DVD)
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.
Sonopsys N° 4
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.
Et Tournent Les Sons (CD)
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.
Contes Sentimentaux (4CD)
11 wonderful sentimental tales produced by the Ferrari's for SWK Radio between 1989 and 1994 based on several of Luc's compositions, released as an essential 4CD box set by Shiin in 2013.
Éphémère (CD)
2015 CD-only release on Mode with a 2012 version for viola & tape by Brunhild Ferrari of the 1974 composition, plus two other pieces respectively for piano viola and tape and viola, voice, percussion and electronics by Meyer-Ferrari and Royer.