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25/08/2021

Voces con Memorias – Voices with Memories

You can listen preview of this album on this page or buy it on our shop.   Voces con Memorias - Voices with Memories Gonzalo Biffarella & Diego Montes   Diego Montes remembers: After finishing a contemporary music concert, a Chilean playwright and writer friend approached me to congratulate me and tell me that the only thing that was missing was the word. Although this happened a long time ago, I have ever since kept thinking: words, music, music, words. For the communion of these worlds I had to look for someone who enjoyed a vast compositional experience and who had worked in these worlds. My friend and composer Gonzalo Biffarella would be the tinder and, later, the bonfire. The...

08/07/2021

Unkodifizierte Gefahr – Uncoded Danger – Peligro no codificado – Diego Montes

You can listen preview of this album on this page, buy it on our shop or go to our Bandcamp album page. Please also visit Diego Montes' website.   Unkodifizierte Gefahr - Uncoded Danger - Peligro no codificado Music for Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Electronics The musical work that is an ideal of Diego Montes' life led him to produce these recordings for clarinet, bass clarinet and electronics. Sound, shaped by composition, the realization of a musical work: the exchange of ideas, their realization and the conversations about interpretation shaped the works that were created in 2020 and early 2021. Diego Montes thanks the composers for their wonderful music. „Uncoded Danger“ is a compilation of pieces that originated not only out...

27/04/2021

Memorias – Gonzalo Biffarella

You can listen preview of this album on this page, on Bandcamp or buy it on our shop.   MEMORIAS These three pieces focus on keeping alive the memories of some of the most difficult moments in the history of Argentina, country of Gonzalo Biffarella. The three pieces were commissioned by the IMEB (International Institute of Electroacoustic Music) Bourges – France Each of these short texts were written by Gonzalo Biffarella on the occasion of the premiere of each piece. 1 - Memorias de rituals cotidianos - 2008 Upon receiving Bourges' invitation to do a new work, I spent long hours searching, with the little help of my bad memory, in the catalog of sounds that I have accumulated over the years....

14/04/2021

Les Macrotonalités – Vladan Kuzmanović

You can listen preview of this album on this page, on Bandcamp or buy it on our shop. Please also visit Vladan Kuzmanović soundcloud. Les Macrotonalités Vladan Kuzmanović experiments with ultrasonic, subsonic music, compositions beyond the threshold of acoustic audibility in the works "Few exoacoustic pieces". 2020 is the year of macrotonal tests, which are obtained by defining a macroton and its distinctions through the triple microton-ton-macroton scheme. At the same time, he strives to reach the limits of macrotones, and above all to determine the limits and possibilities of macrotonal music. Ambient and electroacoustic music, as well as the author's tonal albums, have already opened up great possibilities for macrotonal works. The tone / macroton sound exhibits...

16/03/2021

The New Unusual – Distractfold

You can listen this album on this page. Please also visit Distractfold's bandcamp. The New Unusual The New Unusual is a series of 11 short solo works commissioned in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and recorded in the homes of Distractfold performers between December 2020 - January 2021. Building upon their podcast series, Conversations from Quarantine, The New Unusual seeks to bring together composers, musicians and audiences from around the globe at precisely the moment that COVID-19 keeps us furthest apart. With the projects global reach presenting an exciting range of internationally recognised composers, including from the UK, Europe, the US, the Global South and the Middle East, Distractfold are excited to present this musical socio-cultural document...

12/03/2021

1881 – Luís Antero

You can listen preview of this album on this page or buy it on our shop. Please also visit Luís Antero website and bandcamp. 1881 “The first expedition to Serra da Estrela took place in the year 1881, organized by the Society of Geography of Lisbon and had several distinguished members of this association: Dr. Martins Sarmento and doctor Sousa Martins. The objective was to carry out a scientific exploration of one of the most inhospitable areas of the country, very little knowned until then. […] This sound work is based on and inspired by the scientific expedition to Serra da Estrela, Portugal, in 1881. From it, I tried to elaborate an aural representation, based on...

09/02/2021

Live Recordings – Ensemble Vertebræ

You can listen preview of this album on this page, buy it on our shop or go to our Bandcamp album page. Please also visit Ensemble Vertebrae website and Youtube channel. Live recordings This album is a very special collection of pieces recorded live by Ensemble Vertebræ in the United States, Mexico, France and Switzerland, between 2009 -year in which the ensemble was founded- and 2019. The album includes four pieces for flute and piano, honouring the ensemble’s original formation, and three pieces for chamber ensemble. The last one was recorded during Ensemble Vertebræ’s 10th anniversary tour in Switzerland. The ensemble has worked closely with all the composers from this album before performing the pieces, the...

30/12/2020

ESSE Début – Eda Er & Simon Sieger

You can listen preview of this album on this page, on Bandcamp or buy it on our shop. You can also buy the CD here (for France) or here for Europe and world. Please also visit Eda Er and ESSE website. ESSE Début This is the first album by the duo. In these seven tracks, Eda Er and Simon Sieger explore the rich potential of their differences, in a very particular way. Soon after having met and decided that working together was almost as obvious as if it had been predestined, fate decided otherwise and the pandemic struck worldwide. Being isolated each in their country (France for Simon Sieger and Turkey for Eda Er), their only option was to make...

10/12/2020

Charred edifice shining – Distractfold & Mauricio Pauly

You can listen this album on this page. Please also visit Distractfold website, bandcamp, Facebook and vimeo. Charred Edifice Shining Performed by DISTRACTFOLD with Linda Jankowska on violin live samplers, and bit crusher; Emma Richards on viola, live samplers and pitch bender; and Alice Purton on cello, capsule microphone feedback manipulation, live samplers, pitch bender and spectral freezer. The piece was recorded by Sam Weaver between May 4 and 6, 2019 at the Carole Nash Concert Hall, Chethams School of Music in Manchester, UK. He was assisted by Sean Rogan. The recording session was co-produced by Linda Jankowska. Mauricio Pauly edited the recording and Murat Çolak mixed it. Murat and Mauricio produced it together. The master...

02/12/2020

Trois pièces Levogyres – Jorge Sad Levi

You can listen preview of this album on this page, on Bandcamp or buy it on our shop. The album is also available in an octophony version on our shop. Please also visit Jorge Sad Levi website. Va-(a)u-tour(s) Commissioned by the Musical Research Group of París and composed in the studios of this institution. The movement of sounds evokes the threatening flight of these birds of prey, a metaphor for a country frozen in the circularity of its history. The return of the repressed - Persecutions, political prisoners. The circ.ular history of a cannibalistic country, which goes around its own shadow. Enclosed, (which in Spanish is the past tense of the first person singular of "to get sick") by...