Experimental / Musique Concrète

This album emerged from a chance encounter at Casa del Popolo in Montreal during the Suoni per il Popolo festival. Over the years Tim Daisy and Stefan Christoff kept in touch and in 2023 started exchanging more seriously about working on some music together. The conversations and exchanges over the years had revolved around trying to find pathways for collective action in the arts to support movements against war. Particularly the two discussed and collaborated on a global radio broadcast to cri…

"Live at Klankhaven" captures a dynamic live performance by Atsuko Hatano and Pak Yan Lau. Recorded on October 24th, 2024, at Klankhaven in Antwerp by Diego Faes and mastered by Yves De Mey, this cassette features two extended improvisational pieces: Part 1 (16:32) and Part 2 (15:44). Released by Dasa Tapes, a Greek limited-edition label focused on experimental music, it showcases the duo's innovative string explorations in a raw, site-specific setting. Atsuko Hatano, a Japanese violist known fo…

*75 copies limited edition* Aves de Nahá is the result of an interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge between anthropology, ornithology, and the Lacandon community of Nahá, Chiapas, México. It centers on the aural relationships between the Lacandon people and the birds of their jungle. The work invites us to listen to birds as sentient beings — creatures whose calls and songs announce shifts in weather and time cycles, accompany rituals, and participate in a shared environment where the jungle it…

*60 copies limited edition*  Recorded by Michael Thieke June 23, 24 2020 at Studio Wache, Berlin Michael Thieke - clarinetYorgos Dimitriadis - drums, electronics

*60 copies limited edition*  All tracks composed / edited and mixed by Lorenzo Abattoir and Federico Dal Pozzo, September 2024 Sound samples by Michelle Anelli (Double Bass on track 2),Mauro Sambo (Saxophone on track 4),Riccardo La Foresta (Drums on track 5).

Limited to 200 hand-numbered copies. Packaged in a squashed can with 2 sets of nuts and bolts holding the package together. Inside the package is a paper strip insert. The essence of Aube's artistic philosophy has never been more distilled, more physically incarnate, than in Squash, the 1995 cassette that transmutes the humble sound of compressed metal into a meditation on materiality, reduction, and sonic design. Originally released in a limited run of 100 copies on Chocolate Monk UK via Aube'…

* Special embossed, die-cut sleeve with 56-page booklet - 200 copies on black vinyl * Aude Van Wyller (aka Oï les Ox, aka AI les Axes) joins forces with acclaimed poet Lucy Van, author of The Open (2021) and Australian Women's Historical Photography (2024). This debut collaboration weaves together Van Wyller's ambient mutations with Van's incisive, luminous words. In Material, words reach for the image, sounds reach for the word, and one thing becomes another. The result is an intimate, tactile …

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.

Winterly tape loops from the finnish master. Morose textures, mesmerizing hiss.

*29 copies limited edition* A ritual object disguised as a release. Or perhaps the other way around. This limited edition of 29 units pairs a new work by Renato Grieco with a hand-forged bronze tuning fork designed by Swiss artist Alfatih and crafted in Naples by Ettore Palombi. Each fork takes the form of a small carcass - part amulet, part relic, part sculpture. Weighing roughly 30 grams, its resonant frequency hovers at the edge of silence: a tone you feel more than hear, a vibration that lin…

Nyahh Records is delighted to present a collection of contemporary noise and experimental musicians from all across the island of Ireland. All crammed into this two disc set with wonderful artwork by Alan Doyle. This significant collection covers multiple generations of artists in the field of audio experimentation, including Danny McCarthy (turned 75 in 2025) and some new heads on the block like Francesca O and Enola Christ Metalizer. These 32 tracks cover noise, acoustic, electroacoustic, elec…

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 Avatar/OHM of the touching 1978 portrait of a villager in collaboration with Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari.

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.

Eleven radio tales made by Brunhild and Luc Ferrari for Südwestfunk in 1990-1994: the couple talk in French and German around Luc's pieces, turning memories, anecdotes and music into new radiophonic works. 4CD box.

2014 CD-only release on Éditions Piednu with GOL & Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari performing Ferrari's 1969 open piece plus their own 2012 improvisation.

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.

Amazing complete set of 5 double-LP's produced by Pierre Schaeffer and released by French Radio in 1953, a massive anthology of radioplays excerpts produced and recorded between 1942 and 1952.

Re-issue of the epochal second BAM EP of musique concrète from 1959, featuring Pierre Schaeffer, Luc Ferrari and Iannis Xenakis.

On The Third Mind. A Sonic Tribute to the Dreamachine, a constellation of contemporary artists tune themselves to the flicker-frequency of Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs. Hypnotic loops, drone hallucinations and cut-up sonics seek not to illustrate the Dreamachine, but to let it hear itself thinking.

Tip! *150 copies limited edition* Renowned experimental sound artists Yan Jun and Lionel Marchetti release Yongjin Park, a captivating immersive mesmerizing album of field recordings, electroacoustic improvisation, and raw sonic poetry. Yan Jun's minimalist precision meets Marchetti's masterful layering of concrete sounds, creating an album that blurs the line between environment and composition. It's a meditation on place, memory, and the invisible forces shaping our auditory world.

Four absolute classic musique-concrète piece from the 60's by one of GRM's most representative composers released on Philips' brilliant silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series in 1968. Green labels.

1979 release on the wonderful INA-GRM "Série Gramme" electro-acoustic music series with 5 classic musique-concrète works spanning from 1967 to 1978 by the series' director. With insert.

Composed by Christina Vantzou between 2023 and 2025 after being commissioned by INA GRM, The Reintegration of the Ear defines listening as a radical, embodied act of attention: a slower kind of presence rooted in care, intimacy, and reflection.

First and only vinyl edition as a double-LP set of the impressive and massive meditation music for electronic and concrete sounds realized at the WDR studios in 1972/73 and released by Erato in 1979.

First and only vinyl edition as a double-LP set of the impressive and massive meditation music for electronic and concrete sounds realized at the WDR studios in 1972/73 and released by Erato in 1979.

Impressive and massive 1978 electro-acoustic / musique concrète work realized at the NHK studios in Tokyo and released on Adès' "Le Verbe Et La Musique" series in 1979 as a double-LP set.

Two pivotal electronic / musique concrète pieces realized ant the GRM in the 60's and released on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series in 1969. Beautiful and essential.

Early 70's re-pressing on Philips of the adventurous groovy electro-aacoustic psychedelic music for a ballet by Maurice Béjart with the addition of excerpts from other three nasterpieces from the 1960's (Le Voyage. La Reine Verte, Variations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir). Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record.

1968/9 edition on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series of the highly evocative 1963 masterful variations for a door and a sigh. Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record. Green labels.

1968/9 edition on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series of 1963 feedback masterpiece based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record. Green labels.

Original 1969 edition on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series of three early masterpieces from the 1950's. Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record. Green labels.

Original 1969 edition on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series of three early masterpieces from the 1950's. Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record. Green labels.

Original 1968 edition on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series of two amazing works from the early 60's, one using the vocalizations of sound poet Francois Dufrêne. Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record. Green labels.