Parking
*150 copies limited edition* Parking features two works recorded 14 years apart registering the behaviour and characteristics of environmental and instrumental sound resounding within multiple parking garages. The architectural form and function underpinning the parking garage demands a highly adaptive response to negotiate indeterminate conditions and hidden tensions generated by compressed space, reflective materiality, multipurpose infrastructure, and active thoroughfares. Rather than conside…
Night Flights
Absolutely crucial reissue of Christina Kubisch's masterwork Night Flights.This is the first time it's been available in 20 years and the first time it's ever been issued on CD. Night Flights is made up of three massive works of sound collage. Her sensitivities and abilities are akin to a bonsai master sculpting the perfect Juniper or Joseph Cornell hard at work putting the finishing touches on a box. It's hard to imagine a world where half the records on Important could have been possible witho…
Barrières Mobiles
*100 copies limited edition* "Following the 2015 attacks, all entrances to public buildings – schools, churches, mosques, synagogues, museums, town halls, police stations, etc. – were reinforced by these metal barriers, without any prior consultation with local residents nor with their being given any indication of how long they would remain in place. The public space has been covered with these barriers, which, over the last decade, summer and winter, day and night, have become the symbols of l…
Melt
In 2020, Pali Meursault and Thomas Tilly collaborated to create Radio Glaces, a fourteen-part sound collection featuring recordings of glaciers in the Alps and testimonies from people who have a close relationship with this environment: glaciologists, geomorphologists, hut wardens, mountaineers and high-mountain guides. As a continuation of this first project, Melt* was a series of improvised performances by the duo of sound artists, playing back the sounds and vibrations of the glaciers as they…
Mardle: Daily Rhythms of a Pond
Tip! Musician and field recordist Action Pyramid finds magic in the everyday on Mardle, a compelling and confounding suite of hydrophone compositions revealing the sonic 24-hour cycle of the UK’s freshwater ponds. Rooted in Jack Greenhalgh’s sonic research on pond biodiversity, Mardle brings to the surface the delicate sounds of aquatic insect stridulations, plant respiration and photosynthesis - an ecology of otherworldly rhythms and alien hyper-sounds that feel more like early synth experiment…
UŠAMI / Sound Mapping Camp: Gemer Gothic Route
*2023 stock* UŠAMI / Sound mapping camp is a project of the mappa editions label. The aim is to bring curatorial activities more to the field, trying to map various cultural and social phenomena from the sonic vantage point. For that we use marginal forms of sound art that links the interest in active listening, experimenting with sound, social and critical dimensions of listening, oral and aural history and the issues of acoustic ecology. We are very much interested in the way how particular pl…
Soliloquies – Selbstgespräche
Everyone just talked to himself, said the prince, "we are in an age of soliloquy. The art of soliloquy is also a much higher art than the art of conversation," he said. "But talking to yourself is just as pointless as talking," said the prince, "although much less pointless." - Thomas Bernhard
Il Calore Animale + Zoomachia
Ginevra Bompiani (w/ Caterina Barbieri and Tomoko Sauvage) - Il Calore Animale / Francesco Cavaliere - Zoomachia Disc 1
After some brilliant releases by Soundwalk Collective over the last few years, Dischi Fantom returns with the first two installments of their new Sussurra Luce series, Ginevra Bompiani’s ‘Il Calore Animale’ (Animal Warmth), combining texts by the writer with new musical pieces by Caterina Barbieri and Tomoko Sauvage, and Francesco Cavaliere’s ‘Zoomachia Disc 1’. Bridging the …
Zoomachia Disc 1
*Edition of 200* First emerging during the mid 2000s in the field of experimental electronics, the Italian born, Berlin based artist, Francesco Cavaliere captivated us back in 2021 with ‘Viridescens’, his brilliant duo with Tomoko Sauvage issued by Marionette. With a handful of noteworthy releases having appeared since, he now returns with ‘Zoomachia Disc 1’, a remarkable fable bridging the territories of spoken word and electronic and electroacoustic composition.
For the better part of the last…
Il Calore Animale
*Edition of 200* Ginevra Bompiani is most likely unknown for fans of experiential music. In Italian literature and thinking, however, she is highly regarded writer, editor, translator, essayist, and academic, whose fiction, particularly, is informed by linguistics, feminism, and literary theory, and verges on the surreal and the fantastic, making her interdisciplinary effort, ‘Il Calore Animale’, collaborating with two of the most singular voices in contemporary experimental music - Caterina Ba…
Shibboleth
CD+Book, art edition Original sound installation by Eiki Mori (born 1976 in Ishikawa, Japan). A horn speaker, used to send small sounds far away, will emit whispers of various voices that read Mori’s poems in multiple languages. In the galley space, these voices shall sound nostalgic but at the same time be felt as if they are heard for the first-time, coming from somewhere around the globe. The 15 shibboleths written down for this installation do not really stand for symbolic things or events…
Aphorisms
** 2CD ** —Pascal Graham Lambkin (of Shadow Ring fame) returns with a long awaited epic double LP, Aphorisms, his first major solo outing since Community (Kye, 2016). Recorded mostly during the early winter months of 2022, in post-pandemic New York and post-Brexit London, Aphorisms assembles the sonic detritus of daily life into hauntingly intimate aural soundscapes. Made between Lambkin's residence in East London and Blank Forms in New York, Aphorisms superimposes the two spaces onto one anoth…
Seven Sounds, Seven Circles
* Sold out at the source, last copies around * April 2007. On a wooded peninsula jutting into the Hudson River near Beacon, New York, Lothar Baumgarten sets up his recording equipment and waits for night to fall. For the next eighty minutes, he captures the sounds of a landscape haunted by overlapping histories: the shrieking and croaking of native fauna, the distant clatter of an Amtrak train, the hum of resurgent nature reclaiming the ruins of industry. This is Denning's Point - once home to t…
Alien Abductions: First-Person Testimonies of Alien Abductees
*In process of stocking* Buckle up for some wild extraterrestrial tales on this tape! You'll hear from those who claim to have been whisked away by aliens in their shiny saucers. First up, we have the classic Betty Hill's Zeta Reticuli escapade, the OG of alien abduction stories. But wait, it gets better! We also have Elizabeth Klarer, who says she had a love affair with an extraterrestrial, resulting in a family of three. And more out of this world stories.
Bodies of Water
In what can only be described as one of the most unique and engrossing releases we’ve encountered all year, the Zurich based Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies delvers “Bodies of Water”, a triple LP box set gathering the entirety of their trilogy dedicated to sonic realities of water. Seamlessly joining sound art, field recording, sonic ecology, and scientific research, each LP addresses a specific environment, weaving rigorous research and documentation into a constellation of pieces that…
AR
**50 copies** Sound recording of the March for Peace from Perugia to Assisi and back, 2017.
From the Archives Vol. 2 (Tape)
Another release in the ongoing CCC Archives series. From the archives vol. 2 with rare material by Ira Cohen, Bert Schierbeek, Hans Plomp, Louise Landes Levi and more.
Sounds from Thailand
Big tip! *250 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* A psychedelic journey into images and sounds, intimacy and sexuality: from the jungle into the city, and back again - Sounds from Thailand is a project six years in the making by sound artist Cristiano Luciani. The project is an audio and image book edited by Nicola Novello, designed by Rocco Donà and curated by META. The book contains 158 colour images and a digital download album with field recording tracks. (...)The plethora of ret…
Ghosts and Others
'Ghosts And Others is a singular work in the Phill Niblock canon. It’s singular not just in its material content, but also in its methodology and approach. It represents a highly focused exercise in editing, location recording and acoustic observation. In many ways, this work reflects a kind of acoustic mirroring of his practices as a film maker. It makes itself available to the world and in doing so reveals a particular perspective that says as much about its creator as it does about its subjec…
Viento
'In the summer of 2010 I had the opportunity to visit Antarctica through an invitation extended by the Argentine Antarctic Division. It was nothing short of life-altering, as I am sure anyone would suspect. Upon departing from Buenos Aires for the iced continent the Hercules transport aircraft, under direction of the Argentine military, made a routine stop at an airbase outside Rio Gallegos. What was meant to be a few hours layover turned into several days as, on landing, a strong wind storm ble…