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JACASZEK - IDYLLA (CD)

Idylla is the third of part of a trilogy of nature-based recordings that Polish composer Michal Jacaszek has recorded for Touch. The first, Catalogue des Arbres (Touch TO:94), was a collaboration with Kwartludium that celebrated the earlier inspiration of French ...
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JOHANNSSON, JOHANN - ENGLABÖRN (CD - USED m-/vg++)

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JACASZEK - GARDENIA (LP - USED vg+/m-)

"Gardenia is an existing land located at the Limpopo province of South Africa, right at the border with Botswana. The place's real name is Mmabolela and it's a private nature reserve covering 6500ha of subtropical savanna and part of Limpopo River. In November 2019 I ...
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V.A. - TOUCH. SAMPLER (CD - USED n-/vg+)

PHILIP JECK, SANDOZ, THE HAFLER TRIO, CHRIS WATSON, DAREN SEYMOUR & MARK VAN HOEN, DROME, Z'EV AND MANY MORE.
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FENNESZ - MOSAIC (CD)

"This is Fennesz's most reflective album to date. Composed and recorded at the end of 2023 and completed in the summer of 2024. Fennesz set up a new studio space, the third one in four years. He had no immediate concept, this time starting from scratch, with a strict ...
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TO:125 | TOUCH

JECK, PHILIP - RPM (2CD)

"With "rpm", we wanted to join some of the dots of Philip's life and involve many other collaborators, early and more recent. Fennesz was a friend and kindred spirit on the same label. Claire M Singer formed a new chemistry and partnership and although their plans must ...
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THOMPSON, BILL - AND THE SKY BREAKS OPEN (CD)

""These works were recorded late at night during long solo improvisations. A small table lamp illuminated the Moog guitar laid flat on a table surrounded by assorted found objects and guitar pedals whose multicoloured lights blinked delicately in the near shadows. Time ...
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CLEARED - HEXA (CD)

"Bruce Adams writes: "Cleared, the duo of Steven Hess and Michael Vallera has re-emerged with "Hexa", their sixth release and third for Touch. Steven Hess recorded sessions in the group's practice space, handing them over to Vallera, who in turn added his home ...
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KMRU - NATUR (CD)

"The piece was composed in 2022, and since then KMRU has made it a live staple, tweaking and reshaping it as he performed on tour with Fennesz, and with the London Contemporary Orchestra at Southbank Centre. "I became it," he says. "I merged with it on a performance ...
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V.A. - STEP WRITE RUN - ALPHAPHONE VOL.1 (2CD - USED m-/m-)

compilation of material from the mid-90s by Richard Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire) under his different production aliases
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CHARTIER, RICHARD - ON LEAVING (CD)

"For over a quarter of a century, sound artist and composer Richard Chartier has interrogated an ever deepening thread of minimalist sound that meshes questions of stasis, pulse and timbre. The results of this work is some of the most quietly intense compositions of ...
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TO:124 | TOUCH

GORGUN, IPEK - ECCE HOMO (CD - USED m-/m-)

"Ecce Homo explores the lighter and darker shades of the human psyche, behaviour and existence, and humanity's ability to create beauty and destruction. What lies in the essence of such complexity has become a core idea for the album, while Gorgun seeks to figure out if ...
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SABA, YOUMNA - WISHAF (CD)

""Wishah" ("Veil" in Arabic) is a composition in five stages, written by Youmna Saba between 2021 and 2022, for voice, oud and electronics. Following her previous solo works "Njoum" (2014) and "Arb'een (40)" (2017), this album marks a significant turning point in Saba's ...
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MOORE, ANTHONY - CSOUND + SAZ (CD)

"Touch.40 live at Iklectik. I received an invitation to perform at the 40th anniversary gathering, June 2022. Previous works for the label, "Arithmetic in the Dark" and "Isoladrone2020" illuminated the landing strip for a new work. It should be continuous - a further ...
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COLOCCIA, FAITH & JECK, PHILIP - STARDUST (CD)

"Packaged in a DVD-size 4pp digipak with full colour photography & artwork by Jon Wozencroft." (label info)
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CROUCH, ROBERT - SUBLUNAR (CD)

"Presented live in Los Angeles. Source material originally developed as part of mas gestos y mas caras, a collaborative performance with Rafa Esparza and Yann Novak, presented at the Hammer Museum on July 8, 2016. Sublunar continues Crouch's inquiry into the complex ...
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NIBLOCK, PHILL - TOUCH FIVE (2CD)

"These CDs include pieces made in two different ways. Traditionally (since 1968), I recorded tones played by an instrument (by an instrumentalist), arranging these single tones into mutli-layered settings, making thick textured drones, with many microtones. In the early ...
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NIBLOCK, PHILL - TOUCH STRINGS (2CD)

"CD One - (6 tracks): 1. - 6. 'Stosspeng'. Susan Stenger and Robert Poss, guitars and bass guitars. CD Two - (6 tracks): 1. 'Poure'. Arne Deforce, cello. 2. - 6. 'One Large Rose'. The Nelly Boyd Ensemble, Hamburg - Robert Engelbrecht, cello; Jan Feddersen, piano ...
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TO:79 | TOUCH

NIBLOCK, PHILL - TOUCH FOOD (2CD)

CD1: Sea Jelly Yellow [Ulrich Krieger, baritone saxophone]; Sweet Potato [Carol Robinson, bass clarinet, basset horn, and Eb clarinet]; Yam almost May [Kasper T. Toeplitz, electric bass]. CD2: Pan Fried 70 [Reinhold Friedl, piano].
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