BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle announces the release of Songs Without Throats, a collection of recordings from Paul DeMarinis. A key figure in the history of electronic music since the 1970s and collaborator with the likes of Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and David Tudor, DeMarinis is ...
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"Black Truffle is excited to announce the release of the first-ever vinyl reissue of Ruedi Häusermann's Galerie Randolph, a masterpiece of solo multi-tracking originally released on CD by Unit Records in 1995. Born in 1948 and residing in the medieval Swiss town of ...
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BT042 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"The recently composed Ricochet Lady (2016) is the only work for solo acoustic glockenspiel by the American experimental composer Alvin Lucier. Following in the manner of his pieces I am sitting in a room and Vespers, Ricochet Lady embodies Lucier's approach toward ...
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BT045 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
HAINO, KEIJI / JIM O'ROURKE / OREN AMBARCHI - ONLY WANTING TO MELT BEAUTIFULLY AWAY IS IT A LACK OF CONTENTMENT THAT STIRS AFFECTION FOR THOSE THINGS SAID TO BE AS OF YET UNSEEN (LP m-/m-)
repressed "Begun as a one-off collaboration in 2009, the trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi has now become a solid working group, refining its craft through a series of annual concerts at Tokyo's legendary SuperDeluxe. Much of their recorded work has ...
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HAINO, KEIJI / JIM O'ROURKE / OREN AMBARCHI - NOW WHILE IT'S STILL WARM LET US POUR IN ALL THE MYSTERY (LP)
repressed "The yearly summit of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi continues with Imikuzushi, which finds the group extending the power-trio strategies of last year's highly praised 'in a flash everything comes together as one there is no need for a subject' ...
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BT09 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"So You... (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice) is a major new work by legendary experimental composer Alvin Lucier. It is an hour long epic that tracks the familiar Orpheus myth from a less familiar perspective: that of Eurydice as imagined by poet H.D.; a Eurydice who rails at ...
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BT044 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Alvin Lucier is one of most important figures in more than a half century of avant-garde and experimental sound practice. He has no equivalent. He is among America's most important composers - a towering pillar of intellect, creativity, and beauty realized through ...
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BT043 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is honoured to present the first reissue of a true underground masterpiece, Massimo Toniutti's Il Museo Selvatico (The Wild Museum), originally self-released on LP in 1991. Like his better-known brother Giancarlo (whose classic 1985 Broken Flag LP La ...
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BT040 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to announce the release of Ichida, the first release from the duo of two important yet often underappreciated musicians, Eiko Ishibashi and Darin Gray. Ishibashi is a singer-songwriter, keyboardist, drummer, and multi-instrumentalist, known in ...
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BT039 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Face Time is the second release from the trio of Oren Ambarchi, Kassel Jaeger, and James Rushford, following on from their 2016 debut Pale Calling. Recorded at the GRM studios in Paris in June 2017, the record immediately returns to the idiosyncratic sound-world of the ...
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BT038 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"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 guitars, two ...
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BT033 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Tint is the first new solo recording from Joe Talia in over a decade. Australian-born but now based in Tokyo, Talia is known to many listeners as a drummer (frequently collaborating both live and in the studio with artists such as Oren Ambarchi and Jim O'Rourke) and as ...
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BT037 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is pleased to make Oren Ambarchi's Grapes from The Estate available once more on vinyl. Originally released on CD on Touch in 2004 and reissued on Southern Lord as a limited double LP in 2006 during Ambarchi's tenure as a member of Sunn O))), Grapes from ...
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BT036 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
2018 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 ...
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MAX EASTLEY / STEVE BERESFORD / PAUL BURWELL / DAVID TOOP "Black Truffle is honored to present the first ever reissue of Whirled Music by Max Eastley, Steve Beresford, Paul Burwell and David Toop, one of the key documents of the inventive and energetic scene around the ...
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BT034 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
HAINO, KEIJI / JIM O'ROURKE / OREN AMBARCHI - THIS DAZZLING, GENUINE "DIFFERENCE" NOW WHERE SHALL IT GO? (2LP)
"Black Truffle presents the 8th full-length release from the trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi. Over the course of four LP sides, the October 2014 concert documented here ranges from rock power trio dynamics to maelstroms of analogue electronics. Once ...
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BT030 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
repress available now "Black Truffle is honored to present a new issue of Annea Lockwood's classic 1970 tape piece Tiger Balm, unavailable on vinyl for over thirty years, accompanied by two exquisite unreleased works for percussion and voice. Created while Lockwood was ...
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BT028 | 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
"What happens when Ambarchi is backed up by the world's greatest monster riff legends from his beloved homeland? Find out in the 2nd volume of this infamous series where endless riffing and ecstatic shredding is the order of the day. Bonus intro track features some band ...
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BT032 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Hotel Record is the second release from the duo/couple of crys cole and Oren Ambarchi, following on from Sonja Henies Vei 31 (Planam, 2014). Where their debut recording presented a disquieting portrait of the erotic dimension of romantic intimacy, the follow-up ...
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BT029 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
repressed "Black Truffle Records is proud to present the first official vinyl reissue of Charlemagne Palestine's Godbear. Godbear is a 1987 solo piano recording originally scheduled to sit alongside Sonic Youth and Swans in the catalogue of Glenn Branca's Neutral ...
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BT019 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
repressed "Sleepwalker's Conviction documents a 2014 performance by Oren Ambarchi in collaboration with a 20-piece ensemble conducted by Ilan Volkov. Foregoing the rhythmic propulsion and distortion-saturated harmonics that have featured in much of Ambarchi's recent ...
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BT015 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
repressed "Cat s Squirrel presents a live recording of Masami Akita and Oren Ambarchi s performance in Campbelltown, Australia in May 2012. Although Akita and Ambarchi have known one another since 1993 and performed together as part of larger ensembles, this was their ...
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BT08 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is thrilled to present the first vinyl issue of Keiji Haino's Milky Way. Originally released as a limited CD in Japan by the short lived Mom 'n' Dad Productions in 1993, this release documents a blistering live performance recorded in Kyoto in 1973, five ...
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BT026 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Black Truffle is thrilled to announce Reverse Tree, the new LP from the acclaimed duo of Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney, two musicians who have established themselves as powerful voices working at a unique intersection of contemporary composition, improvisation, and ...
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