Mountain
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.
Asiago
New music for cello from the Asiago plateau and its Cimbrian community, by De Marzi, Gárdonyi, Sollima, Schmitt, Dreyer, Ali-Zadeh and Silvestrov, played by Julius and Hyun-Jung Berger with guests; mostly first recordings.
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Original Score & Variations)
Composed for Werner Herzog's documentary The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner, 1974), this previously unreleased score by the German musical collective Popol Vuh accompanies the extraordinary flights o…
Ever-Present / つねなるもの
This work captures the sounds that were born while Masami Tada carried various small electronic equipment and hiked Mount Kobo in Kanagawa Prefecture, and the improvisation he performed at its summit.
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 Mont…
Heterozygote / Petite Symphonie...
In the field of biology Heterozygous (Hétérozygote) means: a plant whose heredity is mixed. It implies that Hétérozygote, composed between December 1963 and March 1964, is an attempt to engineer a language located both on the musical and on the dra…
Blaukehlchen / Bluethroat / Luscinia Svenica - Bird of a Thousand Voices
The song of the red-spotted and the white-spotted bluethroat, a mimic of other birds, frogs and bells, recorded digitally by Walter Tilgner; released in 1992 in Wergo's Natural Sound series.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Paul Giger, Marie-Louise Dähler, Pudi Lehmann, Franz Vitzthum, Carmina Quartet
ars moriendiPaul Giger (violin, violino d'amore) with Marie-Louise Dähler, Pudi Lehmann, Franz Vitzthum and the Carmina Quartett in his own pieces and Bach, much of it from a film score on Giovanni Segantini. Recorded January 2015 in Maloja, with Guggisberglied …
Heinz Holliger, Sylvia Nopper, Kai Wessel, Olivier Darbellay, Matthias Würsch, Swiss Chamber Soloists
InduuchlenChamber and vocal works by Heinz Holliger: Puneigä (soprano Sylvia Nopper), Induuchlen (countertenor Kai Wessel, horn Olivier Darbellay), Toronto-Exercises and Ma'mounia, with the Swiss Chamber Soloists under Holliger. Recorded 2006-2010.
Navidad de los Andes
Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon), Anja Lechner (cello) and Felix Saluzzi (tenor saxophone, clarinet) in eleven pieces, mostly by Dino Saluzzi. Recorded July 2010 at Auditorio RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Athos
Stephan Micus's cycle of three days and three nights inspired by a stay on Mount Athos, with zither, sattar, shakuhachi, suling, ney, flowerpots and his own multi-tracked voice, recorded at MCM Studios between November 1993 and February 1994.
Holozän
Feature film directed in 1992 by Heinz Bütler and Manfred Eicher after Max Frisch's story Man in the Holocene, with Erland Josephson, Sophie Duez and Elvezia Barzan, shot in Ticino and Iceland in 1991. DVD published in 2009 by filmedition suhrkamp wi…