BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
NIJIUMU - WHEN I SING, I SLIP INTO THE MICROPHONE. INTO THAT VOID, I BRING COMRADE "PRAYERS", THEN, TURNING TO FACE THE OUTSIDE, TOGETHER WE EXPLODE. (2LP)
"Like on the early solo Haino album that shares the group's name (released on P.S.F. in 1993), the instrumentation swims in reverb (the use of which Akiyama recalls as 'a kind of point of the band'), often obscuring the instrumental sources. On the short opening piece, ...
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BT135 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to announce Melopea, presenting two new pieces highlighting the incredible voice of Amelia Cuni (1958-2024), the great Italian singer, based in Berlin in later life, whose mastery of the classical Indian dhrupad developed in parallel with a ...
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BT134 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"The seven pieces of Christer Bothén Donso n'goni offer up a stunning showcase of Bothén's work on this remarkable instrument, heard entirely unaccompanied, except for the final piece where he is joined on a second Donso n'goni by his student and collaborator, the ...
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BT133 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"The Vestige is the first fruit of a new intergenerational collaboration between Giuseppe Ielasi, a quietly prolific key contributor to the European experimental music scene for over twenty years, and Jack Sheen, a young composer-conductor-sound artist from Manchester ...
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BT132 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to announce a new edition of Kassel Jaeger's Fernweh, returning François J. Bonnet's electroacoustic project to the label five years after the acclaimed Meith (BT069). Originally released on Giuseppe Ielasi and Jennifer Veillerobe's impeccably ...
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BT131 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is thrilled to announce Spilla, the second album from Nantes-based Ensemble Nist-Nah, 48 minutes of music for Gamelan, drum kits, wood and metal percussion instruments, and plucked strings that will surely count as one of the most electrifying records you ...
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BT130 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is thrilled to announce Spilla, the second album from Nantes-based Ensemble Nist-Nah, 48 minutes of music for Gamelan, drum kits, wood and metal percussion instruments, and plucked strings that will surely count as one of the most electrifying records you ...
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BT130 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Carrying on from recent archival releases from masters of Indian classical tradition such as Kamalesh Maitra and the Dagar Brothers, Black Truffle is pleased to present a previously unheard recording of a concert by Pakistani vocalist Salamat Ali Khan. Born to a ...
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BT129 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Legendary New Zealand-born experimental composer and sound art pioneer Annea Lockwood returns to Black Truffle with On Fractured Ground / Skin Resonance, her third release for the label. Having recently celebrated her 85th birthday, Lockwood shows no sign of slowing ...
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BT128 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is thrilled to begin 2025 with a rare solo release from Konrad Sprenger, alias of elusive Berlin composer-producer-instrument builder Jörg Hiller. A prolific collaborator, Sprenger has worked extensively with icons of American minimalism such as Ellen ...
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BT127 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
repressed "Black Truffle is pleased to announce a new solo album by Eiko Ishibashi, her first for the label, following on from the duo recording Ichida alongside bassist Darin Gray. Hyakki Yagyo (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons) was produced for the 'Japan ...
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BT064 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Carrying on a string of stunning archival releases from major figures of Indian classical tradition (including releases from members of the Dagar family and Amelia Cuni), Black Truffle is pleased to announce an unheard recording from tabla master Kamalesh Maitra ...
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BT126 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"The 2015 edition of Winnipeg's send + receive festival, focussed on rhythm, turned out to be a generative meeting of minds. There, Mark Fell encountered the music of Will Guthrie, a meeting that was eventually to result in the frenetic acoustic drumkit and digital ...
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BT125 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to announce a tenth anniversary reissue of Oren Ambarchi's Quixotism, originally released on Editions Mego in 2014. Recorded with a multitude of collaborators in Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA, Quixotism presents the fruit of two years of ...
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BT124LP | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to announce a tenth anniversary reissue of Oren Ambarchi's Quixotism, originally released on Editions Mego in 2014. Recorded with a multitude of collaborators in Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA, Quixotism presents the fruit of two years of ...
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BT124CD | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"crys cole returns to Black Truffle with Making Conversation, her third solo release for the label. After the intimate song-like constructions of Other Meetings (BT096), Making Conversation documents a different facet of cole's work, presenting three rigorously ...
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BT123 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is thrilled to announce a reissue of Chico Mello and Helinho Brandão's self-titled release from 1984, the first return to vinyl of this classic of Brazilian experimental music with its original cover art and complete track listing. An under-recognised ...
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BT121 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is thrilled to present the first vinyl reissue of David Rosenboom's unique Future Travel, originally released on the short-lived Detroit label Street Records in 1981 and here presented in an expanded edition with an additional LP of wild, previously ...
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BT120 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to announce Resonant Trees, the first vinyl release from French composer-performer Léo Dupleix. An active member of the international community of younger musicians working with just intonation, Dupleix has composed works for solo ...
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BT119 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to announce the first vinyl reissue of Trancedance, a wild slice of Swedish Afro-fusion from Christer Bothén, originally released in 1984. A major figure in Swedish jazz and improvised music since the 1970s, often heard on bass clarinet and ...
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BT118 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"A key player in Chicago's vibrant experimental music scene since the late 1990s, Block has developed an extensive body of work grounded in a personalised, at times emotive approach to the studio-based practices of the musique concrète tradition, while also ...
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BT117 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is thrilled to announce a major archival release from legendary American composer and live electronics innovator Richard Teitelbaum, centred around his soundtrack for Suzan Pitt's cult 1978 animation Asparagus. Best known to some listeners for introducing ...
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BT116 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
" Following on from last year's acclaimed Vrindavan 1982 by rudra veena master Z.M. Dagar, Black Truffle is thrilled to present a pair of archival releases from the Dagar Brothers, among the most revered 20th century exponents of the ancient North Indian dhrupad ...
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BT115 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
last copies, sold out at source "Black Truffle is delighted to offer up a rare serving of unheard works by legendary Swiss artist Anton Bruhin. Active as a visual artist, poet, and musician since the 1960s, Bruhin has created important work in forms as varied as ...
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BT073 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Real Real World is the first collaborative effort from Nantes-based Australian drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie and Australian keyboardist/composer James Rushford. Primarily recorded in a fluid, spontaneous studio session in Nantes, with overdubs added later in ...
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BT072 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
