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Substrata 2 - Biosphere
Biosphere's 2nd CD for Touch after Cirque [Touch # TO:46, 2000] is a double CD in digipac designed by Jon Wozencroft.

CD One - Substrata Originally released in 1997 on All Saints Records, this remastered version of Substrata contains 11 tracks with a total length of 55:20. "...by many (the ....

Shenzhou - Biosphere
Shenzhou draws more on Eastern and Asian influences. The album is loosely based on excerpts of various Debussy pieces [tracks 1-10]. Many long passages are minimalist and understated, still Jenssen manages to display a rich palette of sonic colours. It might be a cliché notion but perhaps ....
Autour De La Lune - Biosphere
Widely regarded as one of Norwegian electronic music's most important artists, Biosphere's [Geir Jenssen] career spans nearly two decades, several albums, lots of remixes, various sound installations, commissions, soundtracks and even the odd Himalayan summit.

Says Jenssen on his latest ....

Dropsonde - Biosphere
Widely regarded as one of Norwegian electronic music's most important artists, Biosphere's [Geir Jenssen] career spans nearly two decades, several albums, lots of remixes, various sound installations, commissions, soundtracks and even the odd Himalayan summit.

You may recognise his work ....

Cirque - Biosphere
Originally released in 2000, this edition is redesigned with artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft.

Biosphere - Cirque: The Drama of Discovery

"I work slowly", Geir Jenssen said in 1994, when asked about the three-year gap between his first two releases under the name ....

BJNilsen
Live At Konzerthaus - BJNilsen
The 5th in the live recording series

BJNilsen lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Born in 1975, he began working with experimental music and sound at an early stage. He was influenced by the early tape movements with the pioneers of sonic assault and released his first recordings at the age ....

Fade To White - BJNilsen
Benny Nilsen writes: "'Fade To White' contains material from the making of 3 pieces which were created within a different season and then edited, re-arranged and re-mixed in the summer of 2004. 6 pieces contain outdoor field recordings from travels in mainly central europe in 2003 [Gdansk/Poland, ....
The Short Night - BJNilsen
Using location recordings, weather, birdsong and radio, BJNilsen continues to map and explore uncharted territory.

A follower to 2005's Fade to White [Touch # TO:65], BJNilsen develops his work further, based on field recordings and electronics. This time he adds harsher yet clearer ....

Chris Watson
Outside The Circle Of Fire - Chris Watson
The purr of a leopard close up against a baobab tree, waiting. Whales surfacing, breathing in cold air. Coll starling imitate the noise of farm machinery from the hollow ring of a ruined bothy. The rattle of wood over a black stream... Chris Watson's second CD is a dramatic contrast to the spacious ....
Weather Report - Chris Watson
The weather has created and shaped all our habitats. Clearly it also has a profound and dynamic effect upon our lives and that of other animals. The three locations featured here all have moods and characters which are made tangible by the elements, and these periodic events are represented within ....
Chris Watson & BJNilsen
Storm - Chris Watson & BJNilsen
Chris Watson writes:

“During December 2000 several significant storm fronts developed across the North Sea and Scandinavia.

Benny remarked to me that he had recorded some of these on the Baltic coast and proposed a collaborative cd project based around our mutual interests in the ....

Fennesz
Plus Forty Seven Degrees 56 - Fennesz
This is Christian Fennesz's 2nd solo full album after the highly acclaimed 'Hotel Paral.lel' (Mego 16). He also released 'fenneszPLAYS', a 3" CD originally issued by Mego but now on Jim O'Rourke's new label, Moikai. Fennesz has also made various contributions to compilation CDs, including the ....
Live At The Revolver, Melbourne - Fennesz
This is the 3rd in the series of live recordings, which commenced with Philip Jeck's Live at ICC, Tokyo, and S.E.T.I.'s Live in Brussels.

1 track - ....

Field Recordings 1995-2002 - Fennesz
“Field Recordings” brings together a range of material Christian Fennesz has contributed to compilations, special projects and film soundtracks between the years 1995 and 2002. Also, for the first time on CD, it includes his debut 12" for Mego, the awesome “Instrument”, remastered, and a new track ....
Venice - Fennesz
"Venice" was recorded on location in the summer of 2003 and subsequently assembled and mixed at Amann Studios, Vienna in January/February 2004.

"Venice", the fourth studio album by Christain Fennesz, finds electronic music at a crossroads between its early status as digital subculture, and ....

On A Desolate Shore A Shadow Passes By - Fennesz
Fennesz uses guitar and computer to create shimmering, swirling electronic sound of enormous range and complex musicality. "Imagine the electric guitar severed from clich and all of its physical limitations, shaping a bold new musical language." - (City Newspaper, USA). His lush and luminant ....
Saffron Revolution - Fennesz
"Saffron Revolution" is taken from the forthcoming album Black Sea

Christian Fennesz takes his time. He's been a busy guy all through this decade in terms of collaborations, live records, remixes, and so on, but he's only released a few proper albums under his surname, and ....

Black Sea - Fennesz
Black Sea is Fennesz's 4th solo album for touch and his first since Venice in 2004.

"Black Sea is the much-anticipated new album from Christian Fennesz, his first since "Venice" [Touch # TO:53, 2004], about which US magazine Stylus wrote:

"Fennesz does with sound what Stan ....

Fennesz & Sakamoto
Sala Santa Cecilia - Fennesz & Sakamoto
A 19 minute overture recorded by Claudia Engelhart at the Auditorium della Parco Musica, for the Romaeuropa Festival, 28 November 2004 This release features a laptop duet between Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto at the start of their performance at Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome on 28th November ....
Cendre - Fennesz & Sakamoto
This release features a duet between Christian Fennesz [guitar/lapop] and Ryuichi Sakamoto [piano/laptop] - a continuing collaboration between two highly regarded composers. Their first, 'Sala Santa Cecilia', was a 19 minute overture from their live performance in Rome in November 2004 [Touch # ....
Gavin Bryars - Philip Jeck - Alter Ego
The Sinking of the Titanic - Gavin Bryars - Philip Jeck - Alter Ego
1 Track - 72:37

This version of Gavin Bryars's seminal piece, The Sinking of the Titanic, was recorded at the 49th International Festival of Contemporary Music at The Venice Biennale on 1st October 2005 at the Teatro Maliban.

Gavin Bryars - Double Bass
Philip Jeck - ....

Hazard
Land - Hazard
BJNilsen lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Born in 1975, he began working with experimental music and sound at an early stage. He was influenced by the early tape movements with the pioneers of sonic assault and released his first recordings at the age of 15. Benny founded Hazard in 1996 after ....
Hildur Gudnadottir
Without Sinking - Hildur Gudnadottir
Composed and recorded by Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guđnadóttir in Berlin and Reykjavík

Hildur played cello, zither, processors and voice

Additional recordings by Skúli Sverrisson, bass and processors on all tracks except track 7 Jóhann Jóhannsson, organs and processors on tracks 2, 3 and ....

Jacob Kirkegaard
Soaked (with Philip Jeck) - Jacob Kirkegaard
This recording is taken from their live performance at the Moers Jazz Festival, Germany, in May 2002

“There are grains of truth in the suggestion that, in moving, you may find yourself in or out of some one’s favour. But, listen to the slow, delicate, even introspective background: some ....

Eldfjall - Jacob Kirkegaard
This album consists of geothermal recordings of vibrations in the ground around the area of Krisuvik, Geysir and Myvatn in Iceland. The recordings have been carried out using accelerometers, vibration sensor microphones. These are stuck into the earth at various places around the geysirs, mapping ....
4 Rooms - Jacob Kirkegaard
Launch event: 25/26th April 2006 @ The Marble Church, Copenhagen Available to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster

4 ROOMS; empty memorials The work aims to be a revelation of four abandoned spaces inside the Zone of Exclusion in Chernobyl. It deals with a sonic ....

Labyrinthitis - Jacob Kirkegaard
Commissioned by Medical Museion in Copenhagen, Summer 2007

Jacob Kirkegaard has turned his ears inwards: His new work LABYRINTHITIS is an interactive sound piece that consists entirely of sounds generated in the artist’s auditory organs – and will cause audible responses in those of the ....

Jana Winderen
Heated - Live In Japan - Jana Winderen
Live performance at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, 24th October 2008. Source material recorded with 2 x 8011 DPA hydrophones, 2 x DolphinEAR/PRO hydrophones and 2 x 4060 DPA microphones on a Sound Devices 744T recorder in Greenland, Iceland and Norway.

Following Tetsuro Yasunaga's spoken word ....

John Duncan
Tap Internal - John Duncan
Have you ever asked yourself 'What is the sound of energy'? John Duncan has been trying for years to explain the composition of matter through sound and not everyone can understand this, but once the door is opened everything suddenly becomes easy. TAP INTERNAL is beautiful and - in classical ....
Ken Ikeda
Tzuki [Moon] - Ken Ikeda
"This work has as its purpose taking samples from old movies and, by erecting a memorial for the blanks between frames, communicating with the god of images and attracting that holy being. I will be happy if, by saying a mass for our ancestors, I can reconstruct the time of darkness and the energy ....
Merge - Ken Ikeda
Ken Ikeda writes: "I started to keep a sort of "Sound Diary" in 1990. And it has become a bulky record (over 140 tapes!) of improvisational, fragmental pieces of sound reflecting my everyday life over these years. The present album resulted from this "Diary." I avoided an ordinary way of ....
KK Null
Fertile - KK Null
Fertile is KK NULL's first album for Touch, following his collaboration with Chris Watson and z'ev [Number One - Tone 24, 2005], which boomkat called "moving and atmospheric", and The Wire wrote "a complex dramatic work from a strict economy of means".

KK NULL (real name KAZUYUKI ....

KK.NULL, Chris Watson, Z'EV
Number One - KK.NULL, Chris Watson, Z'EV
Z'EV writes: "In March of 2003 seeing my friends Stephen & Josephine in Los Angeles they suggested that i get in touch with japanese composer/performer KK.NULL. There followed a string of weird email occurrences which delayed our communicating until, as it turned out, we eventually met in Paris ....
Lawrence English
Kiri No Oto - Lawrence English
The Japanese phrase 'Kiri No Oto' loosely translates to the 'sound of fog' or 'sound of mist'. In many ways it's a collection that meditates on the sense of displacement and distortion that occurs in environments which undergo extreme mists, snowstorms and sea sprays. In the same way that ....
Locust
Wrong - Locust
The album, Mark Van Hoen’s second for Touch after “The Last Flowers from the Darkness” [TO:31, 1997], features Holli Ashton on lead vocals, and various backing vocalists including Lisa Millet, Tara Patterson (Autocreation), Sarah Peacock (Scala, Seefeel, January) and 4AD artist Vinny Miller. The ....
Marhaug & Asheim
Grand Mutation - Marhaug & Asheim
Lasse Marhaug: electronics
Nils Henrik Asheim: organ

Lasse Marhaug and Nils Henrik Asheim started their collaboration in 2004 at the All Ears festival in Oslo, Norway. This turned out as a fruitful meeting between two musicians of very different backgrounds. Marhaug's feedback to ....

Mark Van Hoen
The Last Flowers From The Darkness - Mark Van Hoen
"Whether helping to mastermind the sensual interweaving of guitar and sampler with Seefeel or scraping together the eclectic mix of desolate soundscapes and overpowering distortion of Locust, Mark Van Hoen is a stylistic chameleon leaving an indelible mark on the face of electronics. The Last ....
Mika Vainio
In the Land of the Blind One-Eyed is King - Mika Vainio
Generally speaking, contemporary musicians produce too much stuff. It is easy to do. But if you feel like sighing, "Oh, it's another Mika Vainio CD", then Mr Vainio himself has anticipated such sentiments with the opening track, a 2 minute blast which sounds like an angry animal breaking free of ....
Black Telephone Of Matter - Mika Vainio
This is Mika Vainio's 4th solo album for Touch, after Onko [Touch # TO:34, 1997], Kajo [Touch # TO:43, 2000] and In The Land Of The Blind, One-Eyed Is King [Touch # TO:54, 2003]. He is, of course, part of Pan Sonic with Ilpo Väisänen, and also records solo as ....
Nana April Jun
The Ontology Of Noise - Nana April Jun
The Ontology of Noise researches the dark associations of post-black metal. No traditional instruments are used on the album and all techniques are digital in their application. There are almost no arrangements or layers, but the pieces consist of single streams which change intuitively. This makes ....
Oren Ambarchi
Suspension - Oren Ambarchi
This is a reissue of the highly acclaimed 2001 album, 'Suspension' by Australian musician Oren Ambarchi. He has released 3 albums for Touch: 'Insulation', 'Suspension' and 'Grapes from the estate'.

Oren Ambarchi is an electronic guitarist and percussionist with longstanding interests ....

Grapes From The Estate - Oren Ambarchi
Oren Ambarchi's third solo project for Touch [after Suspension and Insulation] sees him reaching beyond the work for electric guitar that he's become recognised for, expanding his palette and taking his investigations into another sphere entirely. Grapes from the Estate features new ....
In the Pendulums Embrace - Oren Ambarchi
Oren Ambarchi continues his otherworldly investigations with "In The Pendulum's Embrace", a dark twin to his landmark 2004 album "Grapes from the Estate" [Touch # TO:61]. Returning again to the hallowed halls of BJB Studios in Sydney, Ambarchi expands the scope and range of his unique musical ....
Intermission 2000-2008 - Oren Ambarchi
Intermission brings together a range of material Oren Ambarchi has contributed to compilations and limited edition vinyl releases between the years 2000 and 2008. Highlights include two live recordings - an early, fragile solo guitar recording taken from a radio broadcast in 2000 and A Final Kiss ....
Philip Jeck
Surf - Philip Jeck
AT A PLACE that is yours or mine. It is morning, evening, anytime. You are driving to work, to a theatre, home. You are in a crowd or all alone. You are in Rio, Chicago, Sydney, on a plane to Madras, a ferry to Dublin. You are at college, in a rest home; the children are sleeping, the grandparents ....
7 - Philip Jeck
This is Philip Jeck's seventh solo cd, and 4th for Touch, after Loopholes, Surf and Stoke. He also made Soaked with Jacob Kirkegaard, and the Live in Tokyo CDR. Philip has recently been touring with Jah Wobble & Deep Space, who released 'Five Beat' on 30hz Records.

7 is Philip Jeck's 7th solo ....

Stoke - Philip Jeck
With its acrobatic athleticism and penchant for charming gimmicks, in all likelihood HipHop will indefinitely dominate the field of turntablism. Even record-spinning abstractionists like Christian Marclay and Martin Tetrault, who may not always share HipHop's necessity for the beat, put on flashy ....
Live At Icc, Tokyo - Philip Jeck
The first in the series of live recordings, followed by S.E.T.I. and Fennesz

1 track - ....

Sand - Philip Jeck
" ... the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity" (from 'The Chariot' by Emily Dickinson)

Sand was recorded live in Holland and England in 2006/7 and edited in Liverpool January, 2008 using Fidelity record-players, Casio SK keyboards, Behringer mixer and sony ....

Phill Niblock
Touch Works for Hurdy Gurdy and Voice - Phill Niblock
This is the first CD by Phill Niblock for Touch. Thomas Buckner, baritone voice (samples and live) All were completed with Protools software in a Macintosh computer, and are 24 tracks mixed to stereo. There are two versions of the voice piece, one the original tape piece, the other a version with ....
Touch Food - Phill Niblock
Phill says "The pieces on this CD were made for and with the musicians Reinhold Friedl (piano), Ulrich Krieger (baritone saxophone), Carol Robinson (clarinets) and Kasper T. Toeplitz (electric bass). We recorded the instrument samples at CCMIX in Paris in April 2001. Two of the pieces were ....
Touch Three - Phill Niblock
CD one "Sethwork" (21:48, 2003) Seth Josel, acoustic unamplified guitars played with e-bow "Harm" (24:43, 2003) Arne Deforce, cello "Lucid Sea" (20:24, 2003) Lucia Mense, recorders

CD two "Parker's Altered Mood, aka, Owed to Bird" (16:27, 2004) Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone "Zrost" ....

Touch Strings - Phill Niblock
This is Phill Niblock's 4th release on Touch, after Touch Works... [TO:49, 2000], Touch Food [TO:59, 2003] and Touch Three [TO:69, 2006].

"Stosspeng was completed in April 2007; Poure in September 2008 and One Large Rose in May 2008. The Stosspeng recording session to obtain the materials ....

Rafael Toral
Violence of Discovery & Calm of Acceptance - Rafael Toral
Considered by the Chicago Reader to be 'one of the most gifted and innovative guitarists of the decade', Rafael Toral has been developing in the last 15 years a unique sound world, having been as influenced by Alvin Lucier and Brian Eno as by Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. Using the guitar ....
Rehberg And Bauer
Passt - Rehberg And Bauer
Five years ago, 'Faßt' declared itself to be entirely made up of the ‘mistakes’ and system errors of the digital processes Rehberg & Bauer had used in its making, thus finding themselves at the front end of an emerging tendency in new music that came to be known as ‘glitch’... frustratingly to ....
Robert Hampson
Vectors - Robert Hampson
Dans le Lointain Umbra (2006) - is the second commission for GRM. This 16 channel piece had it’s debut performance on the Acousmonium - GRM’s speaker orchestra - at Salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de Radio France, Paris “The umbra (Latin: shadow) is the darkest part of a shadow. From within the ....
Rosy Parlane
Iris - Rosy Parlane
Rosy Parlane is a musician from New Zealand who began playing music with the avant-garde rock trio Thela. Thela released two cds, 'Eponymous' and 'Argentina' on the label Ecstatic Peace! He subsequently began working with abstract electronic based music, both as a solo artist and as Parmentier with ....
Jessamine - Rosy Parlane
Rosy Parlane [NZ]'s previous album for Touch, 'Iris' [2004] was hailed as a masterpiece by The Red Hot Chilli Peppers guitarist, John Frusciante, who wrote: "...it’s such an incredible, beautiful energy inside of it that to me, it sounds like listening to a great pop record or a great rock record ....
Ryoji Ikeda
0oc - Ryoji Ikeda
This is Ryoji Ikeda's fourth solo CD and his second for Touch, following the highly acclaimed +/- [1996]. He previously released 1000 Fragments on his own cci recordings, and Time and Space, a double 3inch CD, for Staalplaat.

Ryoji was constantly touring as part of the Japanese performance ....

Opus - Ryoji Ikeda
This is Ryoji Ikeda's sixth solo CD and his fourth for Touch, following the highly acclaimed +/- [1996], 0*C [1998] and matrix [2001]. He previously released 1000 Fragments on his own cci recordings, and Time and Space, a double 3 inch CD, for Staalplaat.

op.1 was originally commissioned ....

- +/- - Ryoji Ikeda
3rd edition of this timeless classic:

1st edition: 1996 [Original edition]
2nd edition: 2000 [Millennium edition]
3rd edition: 2006 [Touch 25th ....

Soliman Gamil
Ankh - Soliman Gamil
This is the 2nd release for Touch by Soliman Gamil, after The Egyptian Music [Touch # TO:7]

Ankh is the Egyptian symbol of life, of fertility and of growth. From the rich tonality of Dance of Ka to the exuberant Clown Dance, Soliman Gamil draws on ancient Egyptian culture to create ....

A Map Of Egypt Before The Sands - Soliman Gamil
Soliman Gamil is a musicologist and composer who lived and worked in Cairo, Egypt. Born in 1924, his soundtracks for theatre and film have won international awards. His compositions are frequently used for radio and television. Soliman Gamil died in 1995. The Catalogue wrote in 1988: "Instead of ....
Various
Light (feat. Biosphere And Fennesz) - Various
The 4 track compilation was commissioned for the Touch Tour 2001+. 2 x remixes from Biosphere and exclusive tracks from Fennesz and Hazard.

If you are new to Touch and their artists, this is a really good starting ....

Touch 25 - Various
TOUCH 25th Anniversary edition CD with exclusive tracks from:
Oren Ambarchi | Biosphere | Fennesz | Bruce Gilbert | Ryoji Ikeda | Philip Jeck | Jóhann Jóhannsson | Jacob Kirkegaard | Mother Tongue | BJNilsen | Pan Sonic | Rosy Parlane | Peter Rehberg | Rafael Toral | Mark Van Hoen | Chris ....
Z'EV
Headphone Musics 1-6 - Z'EV
In 1967 Z’EV took a tape music class at the UCLA night school. The leader of the course was Joseph Byrd who was the founder and theoretician of the first electronic rock band; the united states of america. So while it’s almost 40 years now that he has been involved in the production of ....