"During his long and illustrious career the French composer and musique concrète pioneer Pierre Henry created a lare amount of incidental music to accompany literary texts, both on record and for the stage, from Jules Verne to Victor Hugo, from Lautréamont to Antonin ...
more »
more »
OME1020 | FANTOME PHONOGRAPHIQUE
"In 2013, Denis Tagu gave them a present: Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky (Penguin Books, 2010) translated in french (Arthaud, Flammarion 2010). Very keen of this topic, they proposed to use this book as a base for composing music and an album. As ...
more »
more »
IPS1016 | IN-POLY-SONS
"Pascal Comelade and Richard Pinhas met in Paris in 1974, when Pinhas was beginning to go on stage with his group Heldon. With Heldon and, afterwards, solo, Pinhas became the pioneer and accelerator of electronic music in France, and a fundamental reference throughout ...
more »
more »
STAUBGOLD159 | STAUBGOLD
"It was the beginning of 2019 at the WattHaus studios in Perpignan when The In-Fuzzed rose from the incandescent ashes of Hair & The Iotas. They still played garage rock, but with even more fuzz and energy! The arrival of an ex-member of El Vicio and Destination Lonely ...
more »
more »
STAUBGOLD158 | STAUBGOLD
"In parallel to its club-friendly endeavours, Kalahari Oyster Cult is happy to announce the launch of a new series called Oyster Ballads. As its name suggests, Oyster Ballads will focus on the quieter spectrum of electro-powered semantics, from meditative ambient ...
more »
more »
OYSTERBALLADS1 | KALAHARI OYSTER CULT
"Valerie Smith (who's in fact a hairy man from Paris) presents "We're Depressed". An album - dedicated to Mark Beyer - of intense, drugged and psychotic noise / techno that honors the emotional bleakness and naive beauty of Beyer's world of depression and degradation. ...
more »
more »
NP-33 | NASHAZPHONE
"Kaum jemand hat sich so heiter intensiv in die Gehörgänge und Herzen seiner Verehrerinnen und Verehrer gebohrt wie Frieder Butzmann. Mit Krach, akustischen Signalen oder Soundscapes. Bis heute feilt Butzmann am unerwarteten Geräusch. Die Liebe zu seinem Publikum ...
more »
more »
978-3-927795-87-7 | MARTIN SCHMITZ
"Porya Hatami (b.1981) is an experimental sound artist based in Sanandaj, Iran. Working in the field of ambient/minimal, his compositions explore the balance between electronics and environmental sounds, utilizing processed acoustic and electronic sources and field ...
more »
more »
IDEAL206 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
"A radio play on the sound of the city. Bulldozers flatten the desert, neighbourhoods are fenced in, electricity pervades the informal, crowds of people occupy the middle land. What does, what could the city of the future sound like? In "Stadt (Land Fluss)", composer ...
more »
more »
GR199 | GRUENREKORDER
"Kg Augenstern (Christiane Prehn and Wolfgang Meyer) have been exploring the world for many years with their "Tentacles," extendable fiberglass canes that allow them to touch and extract the sounds of the places they are travelling through. These tentacles have become a ...
more »
more »
GR202 | GRUENREKORDER
"Times & Sounds offers a comprehensive insight into the mechanisms of post-war Germany's music industry and sheds light upon its diverse musical styles, as well as their mutual influences and connections, which have received little attention until now: From the onset of ...
more »
more »
978-3-9822100-0-1 | HALVMALL
"Coventry's most notorious export celebrates 50 years of existence with an expansive new set on Editions Mego. Spread across 2 x vinyls (LP and 12") and digital formats. Please note the 12" tracks are exclusive and do not appear on the digital release. Having spent ...
more »
more »
EMEGO292 | EDITIONS MEGO
"Fortuna reissues an incredible Greek belly dance scorcher by little known artist Koko. Following the Israeli Greek-craze of the '60s and '70s, Moroccan singer Koko learned how to sing in Greek and delivered this tavern-style party masterpiece. Organs seer through hard ...
more »
more »
FTNLP009 | FORTUNA RECORDS