Memory / Archive
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.
Martine Joste, Piano Solo
The complete works for ordinary piano by microtonal pioneer Ivan Wyschnegradsky, mostly unpublished, from the late Étude sur le carré magique sonore back to preludes written in Petrograd in 1916. Played by Martine Joste, who knew him well.
Electronic Music 1955-1984
Anthology of the German-born dancer and choreographer's electronic music for dance, made in his three North London studios: tape loops, kettle-lid percussion, radio interference and generator pulses, in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.
In-between
Portrait CD of Turgut Erçetin: five works including the cycle Das Phonem zwischen zwei Wörtern for Baroque ensemble and orchestra, played by Ensemble Musikfabrik, the ELISION Ensemble and the SWR Symphonieorchester under Brad Lubman.
Absolutio / Abgesang / da ispravitsja - gebetsraum mit nachtwache
Portrait CD of Marko Nikodijević: three orchestral works, Absolutio, Abgesang with soprano Anna Sohn and da ispravitsja with organist Jakub Sawicki, played by the hr-Sinfonieorchester and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Jonathan Stockhammer and Vladimir Jurowski.
Variance / Duo
Two unreleased late works by Pierre Henry for his centenary: Variance (2005), a fugal homage to Luc Ferrari, and Duo (2003), a gestural rhapsody for feedback and piano dedicated to Maurice Béjart. Licensed from Studio Son/Ré.
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.
Coups de Foudre
Three multichannel works by Stéphane Roy from 2022 to 2024: a war piece after poems by Paul-Marie Lapointe, a sound bestiary for Jean-François Laporte’s Babel table, and nine acousmatic miniatures on experiential time. CD-R.
Vox Alia
Annette Vande Gorne’s complete Vox Alia cycle (1992-2024), five multichannel works on the voice without words, from Maria Callas and Pierre Schaeffer in Affetti to sacred chant, a Werner Lambersy poem, crowds and animal calls. CD-R.
Interruptions
Five stereo acousmatic works by Manuella Blackburn from 2018 to 2023, made from household sounds, plastic waste and microplastics, a rotary landline and the factory samples and fan noise of a Fairlight CMI. CD-R.
Histoires de Soldats
Two documentary works by John Young built on soldiers' voices: a First World War veteran recalling the angel at Mons at 101, and the composer's father, a New Zealand gunner, on his war in Italy, where he met Young's mother. CD-R.
Remembering Japan
Hans Tutschku’s hour-long five-part cycle from 2016-22, built from recordings of daily life, ceremonies, nature and improvisations gathered during three months in Japan in 2014, composed for 16 channels and heard here in stereo.
Anima Pepsi + The Days Pass Quickly (2LP Bundle)
The two new Blume LPs together: David Tudor's Anima Pepsi, composed for the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70, and Lea Bertucci's The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, written for Norbert Rodenkirchen's flutes.
Mirage
Seven unreleased BBC radio performances from 1969, the last year of the Don Rendell / Ian Carr Quintet with Michael Garrick, Dave Green and Trevor Tomkins, saved on the drummer's own tapes and issued on CD with notes by Richard Morton Jack.
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.
X3 / Phonophani - Until the Fish Eyes Shine
Split LP in the Portraits GRM series: Amina Hocine blends sine waves, field recordings and her own foghorn organ in X3, while Espen Sommer Eide revisits his Phonophani years and the Tromsø ambient techno scene of the late 1990s.
The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity
Commissioned by ZKM Karlsruhe, Lea Bertucci's work for flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen sets his Renaissance, Medieval and Neolithic flutes inside electronic process: an electroacoustic piece that sounds like an ensemble reaching across centuries.
Anima Pepsi
Two pieces David Tudor composed in 1970 for the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, built by E.A.T.: Pepsibird, from tapes of human and animal brain waves, and Anima Pepsi, from insect and animal field recordings.
Post Dub Cities
Ten tracks of dark, slow-motion dub by Ravenna photographer and field recordist Adriano Zanni, built from delays, reverb and recordings of abandoned places, from Pripyat to Craco. Limited grey vinyl on Bronson Recordings.
Telmegiddo
Telmegiddo, recorded in February 1983 at the Mectpyo Studio, was Maurizio Bianchi's last tape decomposition before his long hiatus. Mercium reissues it on CD, remastered: two parts of about 25 minutes.