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A never-before released Art Blakey 1965 live recordings. First official release with the full permission and cooperation of the Art Blakey Estate & INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel).
2024 Repress. Incredible 14xCD lavish box set, a 16+ hour compendium of the electronic music key works from one of the most important electronic composers of the 20th century complete with a 106 page book. Born between wars, Eliane Radigue’s musical journey began in the Paris studios of musique concrète OGs Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry during the 1950s and 60s, experimenting with magnetic tapes, honing her craft in sound construction. But it wasn’t until the 1970s when Eliane moved to New Y…
First complete, authorized release of alto sax giant’s Bordeaux performance transferred from the original tape reels recorded by the ORTF and housed in the INA (the Institut national de l'audiovisuel). Released by Elemental Music in cooperation with the Cannonball Adderley Estate and INA France. Cannonball is featured with a stellar band including his brother Nat Adderley on cornet, pianist Joe Zawinul, bassist Victor Gaskin and drummer Roy McCurdy. "It’s my hope that this music will live on thr…
2024 Stock*. A French-only book about Francis Dhomont with texts by Evelyne Gayou, Francois Bayle, Jean-Christophe Thomas, Francis Dhomont, Stephane Roy, Andrew Lewis, Anna Rubin, Katherine Norman.
2024 Stock*. A French-only book about Jacques Lejeune with texts by Pierre-Albert Castanet, Michel Rigoni, Jean-Christophe Thomas, Yves Krier, Gilles Racot.
2024 Stock*. A French-only book about Michel Chion with texts by Pierre-Albert Castanet, Martin Kaltenecker, Evelyne Gayou, Lionel Marchetti, Pierre Schaeffer.
2024 Stock*. A French-only book about Francois Bayle with texts by Gianfranco Vinay, Evelyne Gayou, Edith Alonso, Solange Barrachina, Regis Renouard Lavrière.
2024 Stock*. A French-only book about Bernard Parmegiani with texts by Pierre-Albert Castanet, Régis Renouard Larivière, Guy Reibel, Philippe Langlois.
Late 80's original copies of the Ateliers de Musique Êlectroacoustique (Studios for Electroacoustic Music) program, designed by Jacques Lejeune himself, and ealized in conjunction with Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). 24-page book, large size, with original texts in French, many pictures, list of works and so on
Digipack CD including a 24-page booklet in French and English. INA grm is pleased to present Le Projet « Ouïr » by François Bayle, a 62’ minute piece composed between 2015 and 2019, published for the first time on CD digipak. The French language can hear (entendre), listen (écouter), grasp (comprendre). “Comprendre” aims too far. What is grasped has already been digested by the mind, away from the ear. “Entendre” is poorly distinguished from it—mainly because of “en- tendement”, which is virtual…
Franco-Argentinian composer Daniel Teruggi follows in the footsteps of the Paris-based GRM (Groupe de Recherche Musicale) and their illustrious founders Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry and Francois Bayle, representing the next generation of eletroacoustic explorers. 'The Shining Space' includes works written between 1997 and 1999 and each composition uses a single instrument; piano, electric guitar, voice, etc, as original sound source which is then transformed by the GRM's own processing tools (…
Composed in the Celia records studio, December 1993, and January 1994. Commissioned by INA grm. As per Jean Schwarz's own words “At the very beginning, there was rhythm”... Rhythm never stopped to be among the heart of all kinds of musical forms, such as traditional, non-european, jazz, occidental, experimental and electroacoustic styles. Each machine produces its own rhythm. The purpose of the piece is to orchestrate and play with rhythms of different machines as varied as possible in order to …
Incredible 10xCD lavish box set, a 11+ hour compendium of the electronic music key works from one of the most important electronic composers of the 20th century complete with a 106 page book. Paris-born composer Luc Ferrari was a pioneer both of electronic and instrumental avant-garde music. He was the founding director of the Groupe de Musique Concrete in 1958 and was, along with Pierre Schaeffer, one of its leading practitioners. Ferrari constantly reinvented his own poetic approach to sound a…
Available officially for the first time, Revelations includes two hours of never-before-heard Albert Ayler recordings presented for the first time chronologically. Featuring some of the last recordings Ayler made before his passing in 1970. This is a major event in the music world, released in collaboration with INA France and the Maeght Foundation.
The 4 CDs are published in collaboration with Albert Ayler Estate & Ina France. This edition includes a huge 100-page booklet with unpublished phot…
2022 Stock. A French-only book about Eliane Radigue with texts by Emmanuel Holterbach, Thibaut de Ruyter, Lætitia Sonami, Éliane Radigue, Charles Curtis, Tom Johnson
Eliane Radigue découvre la Musique Concrète au Studio d'Essai de la R.T.F à Paris auprès de Pierre Schaeffer et Pierre Henry en 1954, tout en côtoyant le groupe naissant des artistes du Nouveau Réalisme avec son mari, le jeune sculpteur Arman. En 1961, elle part à New-York où elle se lie d'amitié naturellement avec toute l'avant-ga…
*2022 stock* Adapted from Shakespeare's Midnight Summer Dream. Realized April-May 1990 using the Syter system developed within Groupe de recherches musicales by Daniel Terruggi. Composed by Jean Schwarz, vocals by Elise Caron
The general idea of this piece was to imagine a fresco comparable to a Lied, where the soloist's voice is accompanied by electronic sounds combined with concrete and instrumental sounds processed on a computer — sounds from nature and transformed orchestral sounds. Only German corresponded to the conditions I had set for myself — expressionism, distance from the text (which does not really need to be understood), musical language.Goethe's “Four Seasons” was written in the fall of 1797, after the…
Argentinian composer born in 1937, Beatriz Ferreyra studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, Edgardo Canton, Earle Brown and Gyorgy Ligeti in Germany. In 1963 she took a position in the research department of the Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise (ORTF). She made a name with the incredible work of making all sound examples for the Pierre Schaeffer’s ‘Solfege de l’Objet Sonore. Schaeffer founded the Groupe de Recherches Musicales was founded in 1958. She also worked with Bernard Baschet…
Over the years, Michel Redolfi has revealed our astounding auditory capacities in the water as the pioneer of underwater concerts, where music is electronically broadcast under the surface of the sea or pools to be enjoyed by floating listeners ... Born in Marseille in 1951, Michel Redolfi developed his sound creations in the United States where, at of the age of 21, he was guest resident at several major studios. In the mid 70’s he settled in San Diego, where the Center for Music Experiment (C…
Argentinian composer living and working in Paris since 1978. Horacio Vaggione was an incredible user of tape machine. Even if he's working now with digital tools, you can remember it. Five pieces working on ideas of acoustic transformations