new album by mastermind richard teitelbaum

world music

heavyweight trio of keiji haino, jim orourke and oren ambarchi return with their 12th release

world music

sounds of the amazon rainforest outside manaus, brazil.

recorded in the north indian city of vrindavan at the druhpad samaroh festival in 1982

in memorian of alvin lucier

black truffle welcomes electro-acoustic composer marja ahti

debut album

solo lp from london-based otto willberg

free jazz legend joe mcphee

black truffle announces symphony no. 107 –the bard

experimental

melodic improvisations

celebrating black truffles one hundredth release!

crys cole returns to black truffle with his >other meetings< album

gatefold sleeve incl inlay

live 82 is a major historical document

new truffle lp

gatefold sleeve with archival photos and illuminating liner notes from rene van peer

new 2 tracker of dewa alit & gamelan salukat

incl insert

rare sound works by toshiya tsunoda

album of berlin-based guitarist-composer julia reidy, psychedelic feel

nist-nah,aka nantes-based australian drummer and percussionist will guthrie.

reissue

black truffle presents the new album by francis plagne

ambient / experimental stuff by eiko ishibashi

coloured vinyl

new release from acclaimed american experimental composer david behrman, presenting recordings made in collaboration with jon gibson and werner durand between 1989 and 2020

black truffle welcomes richard youngs

record comes in a gatefold sleeve.

pamara festival 13.03.1992

reissue

gatefold sleeve / coloured vinyl

gatefold sleeve / clear vinyl

black truffle welcomes sam dunscombe

heavyweight gatefold sleeve / printed innersleeve

gread collab of will guthrie and james rushford

vinyl only / comes with printed innersleeves

kassel jaeger aka francois bonnet

reissue

first international solo release from tatsuhisa yamamoto

2020 re-release !! electronic music legend ricardo villalobos remixes oren ambarchi !!

eiko ishibashi s first album for black truffle

black truffle is honoured to present the first vinyl reissue of the classic debut album from amm

incl download code

star trap presents a selection of hitherto unreleased 1990s recordings from arnold dreyblatt and his orchestra of excited strings mining dreyblatt’s extensive archive of unheard recordings from the 1990s

first collaboration between dj/mixtape-compiler kayo makino and underground legend tori kudo

black truffle is pleased to make oren ambarchi’s grapes from the estate available once more on vinyl. originally released on cd on touch in 2004 and reissued on southern lord as a limited double lp in 2006 during ambarchi’s tenure as a member of sunn o))), grapes from the estate was a landmark release for ambarchi, seeing him expand his sonic palette beyond the clipped, bass-heavy electric guitar tones he was known for at that point. incorporating subtle layers of strings, keyboards, percussion over a bedrock of his signature guitar tones, in retrospect this album can be seen as the beginning of a broadening and evolution in ambarchi’s work that would lead to his acclaimed, densely layered epics for editions mego, quixotism (2014) and hubris (2016).

re-release! black truffle is honoured to present the premier recordings of two recent works by legendary american experimental composer alvin lucier. a friend and contemporary of pioneers like robert ashley, david behrman, gordon mumma, and christian wolff, lucier has been crafting elegant explorations of the behavior of sound in physical space since the 1960s. lucier is perhaps best known for i am sitting in a room (1970), in which he repeatedly re-recorded his own speaking voice being played back into a room until the room’s resonant frequencies entirely obscure the spoken text. beginning in the early 1970s, he has written a remarkable catalogue of instrumental works that focus on phenomena produced by the interference between closely tuned pitches, such as audible beating, often using pure electronic tones produced by oscillators in combination with single instruments.

black truffle presents people pleaser, the new lp from nantes-based drummer and percussionist will guthrie. initially rising to prominence in australia as a drummer in the fields of jazz and improvised music, guthrie later turned increasingly toward electronics and amplified percussion, developing an idiosyncratic style of electro-acoustic performance characterized by shimmering metallic textures, rapid-fire textural transformations and aggressively high volume. recent years have seen a return to the drum kit in both solo and collaborative work, in performances where guthrie uses duration and endurance to push at the limits of his formidable technical abilities as a player in the free jazz tradition, working variations on short rhythmic units into an endless flow of non-metered pulse.

black truffle is proud to present a vinyl reissue of charlemagne palestine s essentiell piano album godbear.

black truffle is thrilled to announce reverse tree, the new lp from the acclaimed duo of eyvind kang and jessika kenney, two musicians who have established themselves as powerful voices working at a unique intersection of contemporary composition, improvisation, and asian traditional music forms. either individually or as a pair, they have worked in contexts ranging from performances of traditional persian and javanese music to collaborations with sunn o), but their work together as a duo (documented on the face of the earth and aestuarium, both released on ideological organ/editions mego) most clearly represents the central concerns of their diverse practices: a music of the inner life of sound, demanding ritualistic focus and promising heightened sensations.

beginning from the abstractions of their self-titled debut release in 2004, the group embarked on a trajectory that saw them move toward near-song structures, tricoli’s voice becoming a dominant element amid an increasingly dense and layered production style. on speak to me, however, the listener feels confronted by the ghost of music, sonic memories echoing across a psychedelic expanse. evacuated of any clear structure, the music becomes a reverb-saturated morass, from which crystalline details momentarily emerge: shimmering echoed guitar, bowed double bass, tactile hand percussion, skittering electronics. suffused with a darkly pensive atmosphere, speak to me is an elegant summation of the distinctive blend of electroacoustic techniques, instrumental improvisation and contemporary psychedelia pioneered by 3/4hadbeeneliminated over the last decade

limited edition lp only release (300 copies) of canadian sound artist crys coles first full-length solo release.

reissue

2 lp compilation

incl unheard works by legendary swiss artist anton bruhin

auf peaks dreht es sich absichtlich und formal um material, das am rande des klischees schwankt. bei dieser untersuchung wird gefragt, ob vertraute harmonierahmen, feldaufnahmen und narrative flugbahnen neue gebiete ausgraben oder aufgebrochen werden können. peaks entwirrt ein sehr persönliches spannungsgefühl zwischen schönheit und scham in der experimentellen musik: Üppigkeit und harmonie als potenziell muskulöse musikalische eigenschaften zu behandeln, die mit zugehörigkeits- und heimatgefühlen ringen oder diese konstruieren könnten.

bellows are giuseppe ielasi and nicola ratti

nantes-based australian drummer and percussionist will guthrie returns to black truffle with nist-nah.

all tracks written & produced by david behrman, paul demarinis, fern friedman, terri hanlon & anne klingensmith

black truffle announce the release of le piano englouti (the sunken piano), the first collaboration between brunhild ferrari and jim o’rourke,

black truffle präsentiert in real life, die neueste veröffentlichung der in berlin lebenden gitarristin und komponistin julia reidy.

black truffle is honoured to announce the first ever vinyl reissue of david rosenboom’s legendary brainwave music, originally released on a.r.c. records in 1975 and here expanded to a double lp with the addition of over 40 minutes of contemporaneous material.

black truffle is pleased to announce the release of australian composer-performer james rushford’s the body’s night.

patience soup presents the entirety of a live performance from the trio of oren ambarchi, jim o’rourke and japanese underground legend phew

erste vinyl neuauflage von ruedi häusermanns galerie randolph, einem meisterwerk des solo-multi-trackings, das ursprünglich von unit records 1995 auf cd veröffentlicht wurde.

reissue, orig from 1991

two words is the debut release from the duo of canadian sound artist crys cole and australian songwriter francis plagne. building on a series of experimental live performances in which the pair toyed with possible common languages for their seemingly unrelated approaches to music, the lp’s two sides present a single piece that brings together abstract texture and slow-motion song in a sonic space where genre cedes to the logic of dreams.

black truffle is pleased to announce the release of ichida, the first release from the duo of two important yet often underappreciated musicians, eiko ishibashi and darin gray.

face time is the second release from the trio of oren ambarchi, kassel jaeger, and james rushford

“tint” is the first new solo recording from joe talia in over a decade. australian-born but now based in tokyo, talia is known to many listeners as a drummer (frequently collaborating both live and in the studio with artists such as oren ambarchi and jim o’rourke) and as a recording and mixing engineer responsible for dozens of releases across the fields of contemporary experimental music, wayward pop, and jazz. alongside james rushford, he is also responsible for one of the most legendary releases in the kye records catalogue, the creaking electronic morass of “manhunter” (2013).

black truffle is honored to present the first ever reissue of whirled music by max eastley, steve beresford, paul burwell and david toop, one of the key documents of the inventive and energetic scene around the london musicians collective in the late 1970s and early 1980s. originally released on toop’s own quartz label in 1980, the lp features a remarkable series of performances made entirely with whirled and swung instruments and objects. part of the second generations of british free improvising musicians, the prolific scene centered around the performers heard here chafed at the limitations present within the music and ideology of improvising legends such as derek bailey, evan parker, tony oxley and john stevens. where the first generations of british free improvisers often demonstrated a rigorous commitment to non-idiomatic free improvisation and instrumental virtuosity, musicians like beresford reconnected with the dada antics of figures like han bennink and surrendered to joyful musical promiscuity, gleefully disrupting expectations around ‘serious’ improvised music through quotations (of anything from betthoven to reggae) and deliberate amateurism.

where shall it go, black truffle presents the 8th full-length release from the trio of keiji haino, jim o’rourke and oren ambarchi.

great experimemntal / ambient four track vinyl

what happens when ambarchi is backed up by the world s greatest monster riff legends from his beloved homeland? find out in the 2nd volume of this infamous series where endless riffing and ecstatic shredding is the order of the day. bonus intro track features some band from new york. yah boobay! deluxe sleeve with photography by crys cole and theresia pfaender design via stephen oÆmalley mastered and cut by rashad becker at d&m, berlin

black truffle is honored to present a new issue of annea lockwoodÆs classic 1970 tape piece tiger balm, unavailable on vinyl for over thirty years, accompanied by two exquisite unreleased works for percussion and voice. created while lockwood was living in the uk, the side-long tiger balm is a singular work within the cannon of tape music. inspired by research into the ritual function of music, the piece explores the possibility of evoking ancient communal memories through sound. breaking entirely with the dynamic language of the musique concrÞte tradition, lockwood uses a select palette of mainly unprocessed sonic elements chosen for their mysterious and erotic characteristics (a purring cat, a heartbeat, gongs, slowed down jaw harp, a tiger, a womanÆs breath, a plane passing overhead), presenting at most two sounds at once. as one sound flows organically into the next, their shared characteristics are highlighted, opening a space of dream logic and mysterious associations between nature and culture, the ancient and the modern. the b-side presents two pieces for percussion recorded here for the first time. amazonia dreaming (1987), performed by dominic donato, uses unaccompanied snare drum and voice to evoke the nocturnal soundscape of the amazon rainforest. unorthodox techniques and materials (marbles, chopsticks, a plastic jar lid) transform the snare into a resonant field of sensual textures.

first vinyl issue of keiji haino’s milky way documenting a blistering live performance recorded in kyoto in 1973

die bemerkenswerte serie von veröffentlichungen des trios keiji haino, jim o rourke und oren ambarchi geht mit *i wonder if you noticed im sorry* is such a lovely sound it keeps things from getting worse weiter und bringt ihr 80-minütiges set vom auftritt in tokyos seperdeluxe in gänze auf vinyl. * i wonder if you noticed....* ist abstrakt, episch und aufgelockert von spontanen epsioden freier improvisation, für die das trio bekannt ist

masterpiece by christian wolff

nist-nah,aka nantes-based australian drummer and percussionist will guthrie.

reissue

incl booklet

the mortimer trap is an epic 77min variation of morton feldmans for bunita marcus constructed by german experimentalist and techno icon thomas brinkmann and australian sound artist oren ambarchi. pulsating waves of claustrophobic ambience generated from who-knows-what patiently builds into a throbbing rhythmic pulse of gorgeous sonic density. since the 80s thomas brinkmann has experimented with sound, its textures and its construction methods. his custom built two-arm turntable on concept 1, the sampling of damaged records on klick and various experiments with carved-groove vinyl are just a handful of career highlights that mark brinkmann out as a true musical pioneer. oren ambarchi, primarily known for his solo guitar records for the touch label, has worked with a diverse array of artists such as keiji haino, fennesz, phill niblock, jim o rourke, voice crack, keith rowe and sunn 0))). ambarchi and brinkmann first worked together in in japan in january 2011 in a trio with mika vainio. the mortimer trap is their first collaborative work as a duo.

2 x cd digipack .. mastered by tom hamilton.

black truffle welcomes sarah hennies

next output by american experimental composer alvin lucier.