Superimposing different sources—background sounds, recordings of a charivari in the streets of Lyon, bird songs or rhythms and melodies of amateur or professional musicians—Paul Elliman's vinyl record can be experienced as a form of sound loitering, each track composed by the transformation of different audio materials into unique musical collages.

A total and exploded socio-politico-poetic inquiry into the poetic milieu, based on a textual-visual-sound device.

Special 30th anniversary issue, including an audio CD.

An exceptional live performance in which the legendary avant-garde jazz singer pays tribute to Cecil Taylor, Billie Holiday and Ornette Coleman.

An exceptional live performance in which the legendary avant-garde jazz singer pays tribute to Cecil Taylor, Billie Holiday and Ornette Coleman.

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.

Celebrating the 90th anniversary of Luc Ferrari's birth, Photophonie, unpublished archives, spanning 1973-1992, is a revelatory collection of commercial, commission and secret music by the electroacoustic music pioneer.

A sound and photographic project about the disappearance of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan.

The French musician, poet, and visual artist blends cut-up poetry, ASMR, Satie, Ravel and Debussy, on her new album.

The singer Christophe puts to music Olivier Mosset's interviews.

A short story by Pierre Loti (1850-1923), which tells the irremediable separation of a couple of beggars who have lived together for a long time, illustrated by a sound piece by Quentin Rollet and Romain Perrot (Vomir).

Dialect melodies are passed along since time immemorial and yet are only spontaneously available in the moment. Before caught and preserved they have to be released. Antje Vowinckel reflects upon this paradox through a collection of dialect recordings which are then imitated by humming musicians who try to catch the correct melodic lines.

The debut release of Alasdair Roberts, Debbie Armour, Frankie Armstrong and Benjamin Webb's vocal project is an intimate collection of traditional and newly composed songs.

The debut release of Alasdair Roberts, Debbie Armour, Frankie Armstrong and Benjamin Webb's vocal project is an intimate collection of traditional and newly composed songs.

The Santos Silva / Zetterberg / Lindwall trio's second album takes the musical creation a step further by adding live electronics for real time sound treatment to an unique conceptual approach to composition & improvisation rooted in both free jazz and contemporary classical music.

An eclectic musical journey through Latin American experimentalism.

Unreleased rarities from Ariel Kalma's personal archives recorded in the legendary GRM's Studio 116 during the 1970's.

A dialogue of the drums.

Black Zone Magick Chant is the newest moniker from French psych-drone artist Maxime Primault, who debuts on Shelter Press. Consisting of three longform compositions borne from what Primault describes as “a couple of very intense periods, in altered states of consciousness”, Voyage Sacrifice incorporates slowly unfurling drone, murky ambient passages and the reverb-heavy sounds of bells and pitch-shifted vocals.

Yvan Etienne's new sound composition (Serge Modular, field recording).

Yvan Etienne's new sound composition (Serge Modular, field recording).

An album conceived by Carlos Casas from the sound materials recorded during the making of his film Cemetery (about the last journey of an elephant in the Sri Lankan jungle, a meditative and hallucinatory oeuvre between animist documentary, adventure film and experimental cinema), extending the immersive experience of the film.

An album conceived by Carlos Casas from the sound materials recorded during the making of his film Cemetery (about the last journey of an elephant in the Sri Lankan jungle, a meditative and hallucinatory oeuvre between animist documentary, adventure film and experimental cinema), extending the immersive experience of the film. This artist's edition includes a hand numbered bonus LP, an art print and a dowload code for an exclusive 99' bonus track.

Recording of a duo that used to perform only once a year at the Plouc festival in Fillols (France), with Pascal Comelade at the piano and toy-piano and the comic artist Alex Barbier singing, in drag, female realist songs from the 1920s.

An album of the electronic music duo whose pieces are composed to be played on the big mechanical organs of the Café des Orgues in Herzeele (Flanders).

Alessandra Eramo's solo album Tracing South is a sonic enchantment through the use of extended vocal techniques, analog electronics and her hypnotic field recording of bagpipe (zampogna) during the Carnival rites in Southern Italy.

Serving as a score for David Hartt's film of the same name about the Habitat Puerto Rico project by Moshe Safdie, In The Forest finds Karl Fousek at his most focussed and controlled.

Eva-Maria Houben's music has somehow always been about perspective. These two new pieces, one for piano and one for organ, are once again prime examples.

A unique example of Amacher's late work.

A 5-disc overview of exploratory works written between 2005 and 2018, including long-form ensemble pieces, idiosyncratic trio combinations and a collection of 10 solos investigating various potential in teractions between instrument and tape.

Archival and live recordings from Australia's premiere prepared acoustic improvising trio.

A total alchemy between the texts declaimed by the New York poet Steve Dalachinsky and the loops subtly arranged by the experimental rock band The Snobs.

Two pieces of electroacoustic music and musique concrète, Music Promenade (1964-1969, permanent version for four stand-alone tape recorder) and Unheimlich Schön (made in 1971 in the studios of the Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden).

Three rare pieces by a composer best known for his work for the stage, dance and theater, a perfect introduction to the work of a fascinating figure of 20th century electroacoustic music.

Cocoon, the solo project of Clair Obscur's leader Christophe Demarthe, publishes his fourth album on Optical Sound.

During Spring 2015, Eamon Sprod (Tarab) and Eric La Casa spent one week to record on waste grounds, at the north east of Paris, and along the canal Ourcq. Spaces which are somehow both inside yet apart from the city; waiting spaces from which to listen to the threshold of the city.

This publication brings together two new texts by Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou. The limited edition includes an original and unique artwork, as well as a CD with a sound declension of the poem, recorded by the author and accompanied by a composition of the sound artist motif_r.

Collection of transcripts of performance poetry by Christian Prigent. This edition comes with a CD including the recordings of these performances, featuring the author and actress Vanda Benes.

Piano always had a central role in the discography of French composer Sylvain Chauveau. This selection of unreleased and out-of-print short pieces—mostly soundtracks—showcases what might be Chauveau's musical signature: quietness, slow pace, long resonances, a close as possible to silence. Music to be played at night.