BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Simla is known in Thailand as one of the greatest living players of the khene, the ancient bamboo mouth organ particularly associated with Laos but found throughout East and Southeast Asia. His virtuosic and endlessly inventive renditions of traditional and popular ...
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BT112 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Dunscombe has been deeply involved in research on the role of music in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, prompting these two side long pieces, composed using field recordings and digital synthesis. As Dunscombe explains in the accompanying liner notes, music plays a ...
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BT111 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II continues Black Truffle's documentation of the late work of legendary American experimental composer Alvin Lucier, who sadly passed away in 2021 at the age of 90. Like the first volume of the series, the two works recorded ...
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BT109 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to announce Tender Membranes, the label's first release from Swedish-Finnish sound artist and electro-acoustic composer Marja Ahti. Active for a decade in the Finnish underground music scene, in recent years Ahti has developed a distinctive ...
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BT108 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to announce its first release from celebrated London-based Canadian composer Cassandra Miller. Though her body of mature work stretches back almost twenty years, many listeners were introduced to Miller through the success of her astonishing ...
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BT107 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to welcome free jazz legend Joe McPhee back to the fold with Oblique Strategies, a wild trio recorded in Antwerp in 2018 in the company of Mette Rasmussen's fire-breathing alto saxophone and Dennis Tyfus's post-Fluxus antics on tape, voice, and ...
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BT105 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to announce Symphony No. 107 -The Bard, a previously unheard archival recording of the legendary improvising ensemble MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva), captured in concert at Bard College, New York in 2012. Formed by a group of American expat ...
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BT104 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Recorded in November 1971 during the Berliner Jazztage at a heavy-hitting concert that also included the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and groups led by Peter Brötzmann, Manfred Schoof, and Masahiko Sato, Scheisse '71 is the only document of a wild, otherwise unrecorded ...
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BT103 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Like much of Ielasi's work in recent years, these seven pieces perform a delicate balancing act: between abstraction and immediacy, austerity and abundance. Imbued with Ielasi's distinctive lightness of touch, considered approach to pacing, and subtly psychedelic ...
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BT102 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"As any Youngs fan knows, one of the great pleasures of following his career comes from not being able to predict what the next entry in his inexhaustible string of releases will bring: Unaccompanied voice? Country songs? Shakuhachi? Guitar pieces played with his feet? ...
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BT101 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
repressed "Demonstrating the restless creative drive of an artist now in his 80s, the two recent works presented here both feature the electric guitar, an instrument Lucier has just recently begun to explore. In Criss-Cross, Lucier's first composition for electric ...
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BT033 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
repressed "Black Truffle is pleased to announce For McCoy, a new work by Eiko Ishibashi dedicated to the widely loved character of Jack McCoy, portrayed by Sam Waterston in Law & Order. Following on from Hyakki Yagyo (BT064), For McCoy finds Ishibashi further exploring ...
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BT084 | 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
HAINO, KEIJI / JIM O'ROURKE / OREN AMBARCHI - IN THE PAST ONLY GENIUSES WERE CAPABLE OF STAGING THE PERFECT CRIME (ALSO KNOWN AS A REVOLUTION) TODAY ANYBODY CAN ACCOMPLISH THEIR AIMS WITH THE PUSH OF THE BUTTON (2LP)
repressed "For its 50th release, Black Truffle presents the 9th album from one of the label's core ensembles, the power trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi. Drawn from a November 2015 performance at Tokyo's now-defunct SuperDeluxe, the record's opening ...
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BT050LP | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Celebrating its one hundredth release, Black Truffle is honoured to present a major archival discovery: a stunning document of the only performance by the trio of Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt and Jim O'Rourke. Across a two-night programme organised by David Weinstein ...
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BT100 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
repress "Black Truffle is honoured to present the first vinyl reissue of the classic debut album from AMM, AMMMusic. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of its recording in 1966, this reissue makes one of the cornerstones of the experimental music tradition available ...
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BT018 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to announce its second release from New York violin duo String Noise (Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris), following on from their self-titled double-disc collection of compositions by Alvin Lucier (BT061). Here they present A Complete ...
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BT099CD | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle's documentation of the prolific recent work of legendary American composer Alvin Lucier continues with Works for the Ever Present Orchestra. This is a very special release for the composer, as it presents pieces written for the thirteen-member Ever ...
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BT060 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Continuing Black Truffle's series of releases documenting the recent work of legendary American experimental composer Alvin Lucier, String Noise presents three major works for violin solo and duo composed between 2004 and 2019. Lucier has developed his compositions in ...
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BT061 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is thrilled to announce the first ever vinyl reissue of legendary performance and sound artist John Duncan's forgotten gem Klaar, originally released by Extreme in 1991 and partly created in collaboration with Andrew McKenzie (The Hafler Trio). Duncan is ...
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BT031 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Katzenstein's absurdist, poetic, and often hilarious work made extensive use of sound and music. This, however, is the first release dedicated to the artist's audio work, collecting 28 tracks produced between the early 1980s and 2017. Compiled from dozens of hours of ...
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BT098 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"The renowned trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi return to Black Truffle with their 11th release, "Caught in the dilemma of being made to choose" This makes the modesty which should never been closed off itself Continue to ask itself: "Ready or not?" ...
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BT097 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Following on from last year's acclaimed Sylva Sylvarum, the epic double LP from Ora Clementi (her collaborative project with James Rushford), crys cole returns to Black Truffle with Other Meetings. Originally commissioned and released on cassette by Boomkat Editions in ...
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BT096 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Following on from the stunning recording of her 1992 performance at the Berlin Parampara Festival (BT079), Black Truffle is pleased to continue its documentation of the work of Berlin-based Italian singer Amelia Cuni, one of the great contemporary exponents of dhrupad, ...
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BT092 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to announce a major archival discovery from the wildest outer fringes of the FMP universe, the Bergisch-Brandenburgisches Quartett's Live '82. The Bergisch-Brandenburgisches Quartett (BBQ) was formed in 1980 in Rostock, East Germany, when three ...
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BT095 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
