New Arrivals
Sèlection des musiques traditionnelles d’Afrique
'Selection des musiques traditionnelles d'Afrique' is a live recording session of ritual dance from Italian composer Luca Garino and the first release on tape of Details Sound. A fascinating musical document that incorporates percussion ensembles, …
Housebound Demigod
Long in the making debut album from Modern Love’s most elusive operator G. Howell. Recorded with a DR550, a battered Charvel guitar + assorted pedals, recommended if you're into Stephen O’Malley, Autechre, David Lynch, Shackleton, NWW, Demdike Stare.…
Orwell Court
Gareth Dickson is ghostlike. From the dark outskirts of Glasgow he has sent three studio studio albums in to the world - Collected Recordings (2009), The Dance (2010) and Quite A Way Away (2012). These albums have bewitched a growing inner circl…
A Hatchet For The Honeymoon (Il Rosso Segno Della Follia)
Great horror work from Sante Maria Romitelli, the stunning score to this psychological thriller (also known as 'Il Rosso Segno Della Follia') directed by the legendary Mario Bava, the granddaddy of Italian horror films.– served up in a very nice mi…
Musica per un Anno (March 28th, 6 pm)
Musica per un anno is a pivotal project by Italian pioneer of electronic music Enore Zaffiri. In 1968 Zaffiri devised a project to create music for each hour of the year, by providing precise instructions to organise various layers of sinusoidal s…
Lark City
“Skylark” (Mercer/Carmichael) plays under different forms as The Skylark Quartet with Orlando Lewis, clarinet, Franz-Ludwig Austenmeiser, keyboard, Hayden Pennyfeather, bass, Roland Spindler, drums. Producer is Sam Sfirri with the help of Taku Unami.…
Six Pianos / Keyboard Study #1
After the widely noticed performance at the "Acht Brücken Festival 2016" at Cologne's Philharmonic Hall, Gregor Schwellenbach, Hauschka, Erol Sarp (of Grandbrothers), Daniel Brandt and Paul Frick (both of Brandt Brauer Frick) and John Kameel Farah re…
Celestial Vibration
Laraaji’s sublime zither improvisation, Celestial Vibrations (1978) forms nothing less than an early archetype for new age ambient music. It was originally issued as a privately pressed meditation aid and sold in limited numbers around NYC until, …
Autoportrait
Reissue of a cassette released in 1991 by La Légende des voix. A sound self-portrait harsh and tortured also using some texts.Brume (Christian Renou) is a prolific French musique concrete composer/sound sculptor who has won himself a place of his own…
From Somewhere To Nowhere
100 copies clear. French industrial music from 1987. Drawing their influences from Suicide, The Residents, Throbbing Gristle to Joy Division or Bauhaus to name a few, Urbain Autopsy their own way of combining power electronics, industrial, experi…
Stitched Phenomena
Leif Brush (b. 1932) is a pioneering sound artist who for over five decades has built something of a vast labyrinth of an artistic presence, in a certain sense having existed on the fringes of the more esoteric strands of early sound practices. Durin…
Dedicated to Uri Klangers
In 2015 Hey Colossus released two albums on Rocket Recordings, In Black and Gold in February and Radio Static High in October. Dedicated to Uri Klangers is a look back. It's best summed up by the 3000 words that can be found on the inner sleeve of…
Resting in a Fold of the Fog
Resting in a Fold of the Fog includes two Michael Pisaro's pieces for percussion, guitar and laptop. They are performed by two Dedalus Ensemble members Stéphane Garin and Didier Aschour, and by Michael Pisaro himself. Pieces titles are inspired by a …
On the silver globe
Lasse Marhaug, electronics. Kim Myhr, electronics, electric guitar. SOFA is proud to release “On The Silver Globe” – the debut album of the duo of Kim Myhr and Lasse Marhaug. The album originated as a commission from the MetaMorf art biennale in Tron…
Karpatklokke
Henrik Olsson, objects, friction, piezo. Martin Taxt, microtonal tuba, electronics. Håvard Volden, guitar, tape-loop.Muddersten is a type of mudrock whose original constituents were clays. It looks like hardened mud and, depending upon the circumstan…
Bite of the Orange
Robin Hayward, Microtonal F-tuba. Peder Simonsen, Microtonal C-tuba. Martin Taxt, microtonal C-tuba. Bite of the Orange is Microtub’s third album on SOFA. On ‘Bite of the Orange’ the three tuba players dig deeper into the sphere of just intonation. R…
Harpoon
Håvard Skaset / Jacob Felix Heule / Guro Skumsnes Moe / Lasse Marhaug. Recorded at Tunnelen, Oslo, May 2014. Mixed at the best studio in Oslo, 2015–2016. A collaborative LP of acoustic improvisors SULT (Håvard Skaset: guitar / Jacob Felix Heule: perc…
Musiques dans les spasmes – Ecrits (1951-2005)
French edition. Edited by Brunhild Ferrari and Jérôme Hansen. Foreword by Jim O’Rourke. Introduction by Brunhild Ferrari. Interview with Luc Ferrari by Pierre-Yves Macé and David Sanson. Luc Ferrari’s writings, most of them previously unpublished. A …
Wondrous Intermission
The problem with artists like Icelandic Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson is that you don't know what's the best point from which to start the narration. If you start chronologically it's going to look like a Wikipedia entry. If you focus only on the latest…
On Germaine Dulac
Music & instruments by Mathieu Serruys. Recorded at The Holiday Island between December 2013 and July 2014. Produced by Mathieu Serruys & Joris Verdoodt. Mastered by Jürgen De Blonde. Album design by Mathieu Serruys & Joris Verdoodt.
On Germaine D…