BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS

back in stock, one of Black Truffle's finest moments "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 ...
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BT041 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS

repressed "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 ...
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BT029 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
HAINO, KEIJI / JIM O'ROURKE / OREN AMBARCHI - EACH SIDE HAS A DEPTH OF 5 SECONDS A POLKA DOT PATTERN IN HORIZONTAL ARRAY A FLICKERING THAT MOVES VERTICALLY (LP)

repressed "The trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, and Oren Ambarchi return to Black Truffle with their 10th release, recorded live in Tokyo in February, 2017. While many of the trio's recent works have seen them focussing primarily on their core guitar/bass/drums power ...
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BT074 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
HAINO, KEIJI / JIM O'ROURKE / OREN AMBARCHI - WITH PATS ON THE HEAD, JUST ONE TOO FEW IS EVIL ONE TOO MANY IS GOOD THAT'S ALL IT IS (3LP)

"The heavyweight trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi return with their 12th and most epic release to date, the triple LP With pats on the head, just one too few is evil one too many is good that's all it is. Documenting the entirety of their final ...
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BT113 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS

repressed "Black Truffle is pleased to announce World in World, the latest solo offering from prolific Berlin-based guitarist-composer Julia Reidy. Where the recent trilogy of LP releases - brace, brace (Slip, 2019), In Real Life (Black Truffle, 2019), and Vanish ...
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BT088 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS

repressed "Black Truffle present In Real Life, the latest in a flurry of releases from Berlin-based guitarist and composer Julia Reidy. Having drawn acclaim for solo performances on 12-string acoustic guitar that bridge microtonality, 'American primitive' stylings and ...
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BT051 | 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 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

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

"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

"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

"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

repressed "Elders is the debut release from Ensemble Nist-Nah, a nine-piece percussion group led by Nantes-based Australian drummer and percussionist Will Guthrie. The diverse group of French musicians that make up Ensemble Nist-Nah - whose collective experience ...
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BT086 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS

"Black Truffle is thrilled to announce Drumming Up Trouble, the first release of previously unissued music by Alvin Curran on the label. Collecting works recorded between 2018-2021 and a side-long epic dating back to the early 80s, as the title suggests, Drumming Up ...
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BT094 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS

"Black Truffle is thrilled to continue its program of archival releases from Arnold Dreyblatt with a recently unearthed concert recording from Dreyblatt and Paul Panhuysen's "Duo Geloso". While isolated examples of Dreyblatt's collaboration with the legendary Dutch ...
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BT091 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS

" After her stunning collaboration with Jim O'Rourke (Le Piano Englouti, BT055), Brunhild Ferrari returns to Black Truffle with Stürmische Ruhe, her first duo with Christoph Heemann. A legendary figure in underground music, Heemann has quietly produced a unique body of ...
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BT090 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS

"Elders is the debut release from Ensemble Nist-Nah, a nine-piece percussion group led by Nantes-based Australian drummer and percussionist Will Guthrie. The diverse group of French musicians that make up Ensemble Nist-Nah - whose collective experience encompasses ...
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BT086CD | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS