Landscape
Au Nom Deus Asos
Elizabeth Vogler sings in Occitan and other South-West dialects to harmonium alone in the church of Lescun, in the Pyrénées: six songs between ancient folk and experimental music, first time on vinyl, 100 copies.
Impressions
Six acousmatic works by Julien Guillamat from 2010 to 2026, from Birmingham pieces built on the dismantling of the BEAST loudspeaker system to recent soundscapes of the Aure Valley in the Hautes-Pyrénées, recorded in its ski resorts and mountain villages. CD-R.
Sillages
Roxanne Turcotte’s “sonic archeology”: electroacoustic works mixing everyday objects, field recordings from Tokyo, the Seychelles and New Zealand, and sounds of Jean-François Laporte’s invented instruments, dedicated to her late colleagues and mentors. CD-R.
Soulignement_
Adrian Moore’s works from 2019 to 2024: five wt_ pieces each built from one source (a ceramic pot, a bird whistle, a wine glass, metal sheets, voices) with the same Pure Data toolkit, plus two Sheffield-area site pieces on industrial noise and change. CD-R.
IV
Christian Bouchard’s fourth album, five works from 2013 to 2022 that alternate abstract pieces with Montréal soundscapes: eight-track recordings from his car with police radio, a collective 15-minute recording, Canadian bird songs and a bank of oscillators.
Fulgurances
Six works by the Montréal composer Vanessa Massera from 2015 to 2018, made in Sheffield, Estonia and Sweden: English bonfire nights, an abandoned factory with accordionist Tuulikki Bartosik, the Stockholms Saxofonkvartett, and her grandmother’s memories of the Resistance.
Minnets Långa Kedjor
First recorded work by Swedish drone composer Mats Erlandsson and double bassist Gus Loxbo, friends for 25 years: free improvisation, electroacoustic drone and doom, reshaped in the studio through digital processing and tape work.
Cosmic Cowgirls & Female Outlaws 1951-1979
Psychedelic and acid-tinged country-folk by fearless women, 1951-1979, compiled with Hackney's Stranger Than Paradise: Connie Converse, Annette Peacock, Linda Perhacs, Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes, Brigitte Fontaine, Bobbie Gentry.
Abhaile
Compositions by Finola Merivale for field recordings and electronics, with Catherine Sikora's tenor saxophone moving through shifting sonic environments between stark minimalism and dense, evocative layers.
The Mortgage Burn
Weston Olencki's compositions for the Quebec percussion trio Bascaille: tuned fiddles, homemade zithers, watershed debris, speaker cones and an upright piano in two long pieces of friction, resonance and lopsided pulse.
Jeita ou Murmure des Eaux
A cornerstone of the acousmatic tradition, finally on vinyl. François Bayle's Jeîta ou Murmure des Eaux arrives as a limited LP via Recollection GRM and Shelter Press - one of the composer's most singular and spatially ambitious works, composed in the wake of a concert given at the Jeita Grotto in Lebanon in 1969, where Bayle had traveled to mark the opening of the cave's newly discovered upper gallery. Bayle joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in 1960, studying under Pierre Schaeffer and …
The Oak Of The Golden Dreams
The Lost Genesis of Ambient Minimalism: Harold Budd's Seminal The Oak Of The Golden Dreams Returns to Vinyl
I Racconti di Aretusa
Tip! “I Racconti di Aretusa” is the result of the encounter between Lino Capra Vaccina, a legend of Italian minimalism, and Mai Mai Mai, the alias of Toni Cutrone, a key international figure in the avant-garde/drone scene. A work that weaves together experimentation and Mediterranean echoes, creating a sonic journey of rare intensity. The collaboration was born during an artistic residency for the Ortigia Sound System (Syracuse, Sicily), a festival dedicated to the dialogue between traditional s…
La grande vallee / Micro-climat
** 2022 Repress ** "I wonder if my fascination for clouds (without being an obsession) may have risen at the end of the '80s as, whilst composing 'Micro-climat', I would regularly wander between the Vercors mountains and the high plateaus of the Monts du Forez discovering, through my eyes, body, breath, active observation and walk, that natural forms when constantly changing and yet swollen with a unity of matter (in this instance, water) open one up to a deep, fundamental breath and a clear fie…
Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires (LP) + La grande vallee / Micro-climat
This bundle collects the two most recent Recollection GRM releases:Michèle Bokanowski "Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires" (LP)Lionel Marchetti "La grande vallee / Micro-climat" (LP)Since the mid-2010s, Recollection GRM - the celebrated vinyl only imprint attached to the archives of the legendary Paris based studio and collective Groupe De Recherches Musicales - has issued some of the most exciting artefacts of experimental electronic music to have graced out ears. Initially focused on the output o…
Thames
Field recordings tracing the river from Tower Bridge out to the estuary marshes, where industry and birdsong compete for the same air. Ian Rawes has been documenting London's disappearing soundworld since 2008.
Lokale Musik
Expanded 3-CD reissue of Walter Zimmermann's Lokale Musik, first issued in 1982 as a 3-LP set: two CDs remastered from the analog tapes, a third with new supplemental recordings and revised works, and a 60-page book.
Racines
Five field-recording based works by Annie Mahtani from 2008 to 2019: the Black Country Living Museum, Amazon nights from the Mamori Sound Project, thousands of ice sculptures by Néle Azevedo, wind in the Cheviot Hills, and a piece for her sister.
Micro-Lieux
Eight works by Nikos Stavropoulos from 2003 to 2017 on intimate, close-up acoustic space, several conceived in 5.1 or ambisonics, among them Topophilia, Karst Grotto and Granicus, written for percussionist Alexander Pepelasis, who plays it here.
A Winter Journey
Photo book by Jan Jedlička: one black-and-white film shot on a train from Basel to The Hague on 5-8 February 1995, printed in sequence without selection. 56 pages, ECM New Series Book Edition/1, 1996.