Фирма Black Truffle

Artist: Francis & Cole, Crys Plagne Label: Black Truffle

Record Label: Black Truffle Style: Experimental

Record Label: Black Truffle Style: Experimental

Record Label: Black Truffle Style: Experimental

Artist: JOHN DUNCAN Label: Black Truffle

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 O’Malley Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin Record Label: Black Truffle Style: Avantgarde

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. On Reverse Tree, the duo expand their work together into the realm of the chamber ensemble, presenting two side-long works that feature Kenney’s voice and Kang’s viola alongside a multitude of other instrumentalists. Kang’s Thoughts on Being Exiled to the Frontier, for Lord Wei, inspired by a text by the Tang dynasty poet Hsueh T'ao, features an all-star international ensemble: Kang, Kenney, maverick Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov on violin, Icelandic cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir, and guitarists Oren Ambarchi and Stephen O’Malley. The piece is primarily composed of irregular patterns of pizzicato notes and guitar harmonics, gently falling in and out of sync and providing a subtly unstable support for Kenney’s voice, which sings long, wavering tones, at times reminiscent of Michiko Hirayama’s classic performances of Scelsi. Drawing on 20th century instrumental techniques, alternate tuning systems, non-western music and the experience of nature (the irregular rhythms of the piece calling to mind nothing so much as drops of rain), the piece opens a space both serene and subtly uneasy. Kenney’s ‘Elm features Kenney and vocalist Nova Ruth (of Filastine & Twin Sista) alongside an ensemble of strings and Seattle’s Gamelan Pacifica, performing on Javanese instruments tuned to the slendro scale. An uncanny timbre created by bowing the keys of the Gamelan’s instruments, supported by bowed harmonics from the strings, is heard consistently throughout the piece. After a long introductory section in which this harmonic cloud slowly descends from shimmering high notes to rumbling bass, the vocalists enter, singing a slow and stately setting of a 19th century Surakarta poem (attributed to Mangkunegara the IV). The melody is sung as a rich and wavering heterophony, with the ensemble sometimes rising up to support individual notes. The poem deals with the idea of a form of knowledge achieved through deeds, as a practice and state of the heart. This is music in slow motion, in which, in Kenney’s words, ‘scouring the edges of each syllable, each vocalist is kneeling on a sheep hide, searching for the possibilities of what this knowledge might be, shared and private, through layers of history, culture, colonialism, distance, desire’. Key Selling Points: - 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. - Features an all-star international ensemble with Kang and Kenney alongside maverick Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov on violin, Icelandic cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir, and guitarists Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O’Malley, vocalist Nova Ruth and Seattle’s Gamelan Pacifica. - Two slow motion sidelong works drawing on 20th century instrumental techniques, alternate tuning systems, non-western music and the experience of nature opening up a space that is both serene and subtly uneasy. - Presented in a deluxe sleeve designed by Stephen O’Malley - Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin June 2016. Cut at 45rpm for maximum fidelity Record Label: Black Truffle Style: Experimental

Black Truffle present the first vinyl issue of Keiji Haino's Milky Way. Originally released as a limited CD in Japan by the short lived Mom 'N' Dad Productions in 1993, this release documents a blistering live performance recorded in Kyoto in 1973, five years before the formation of the first line-up of Fushitsusha, and eight years before Haino's first solo album. Working with a mysterious set-up including primitive electronics, homemade acoustic instruments, piano and voice, Haino lets loose a single 48-minute psychedelic maelstrom, marrying the immersive echo-fields of kosmische music to the rough and ready hands-on feel of classic 1960s live electronics à la MEV or Robert Ashley's Wolfman. Despite the absence of guitar, this recording clearly lays the groundwork for the epic blowouts which were to make Haino's name in years to come, building up to a point of almost unbearable intensity in its final minutes as Haino's voice wails over a wall of distorted DIY electronics. At times presaging the psychedelic noise of C.C.C.C., Milky Way shows Haino's singular intensity and ritualistic performance style already in full flower at this early date in his long career. Presented in raw and immediate room fidelity (complete with dramatic tape drop-out), this is both an essential historical document and a classic performance in its own right. Presented in a deluxe heavyweight sleeve with an inner sleeve featuring Haino's poetry in Japanese, with an English translation by Alan Cummings. Original design by Keiji Haino & Yasunori Arai. LP reissue design via Stephen O'Malley. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin June 2016. Record Label: Black Truffle Style: Experimental

Oren Ambarchi's recent Editions Mego release Hubris gets the remix treatment courtesy of electronic music legend Ricardo Villalobos. Villalobos expertly tranforms Ambarchi's layered web of countless sustained and pulsating palm-muted guitars into a funky, mesmerising and propulsive long-form piece. key selling points: - Electronic music legend Ricardo Villalobos remixes Oren Ambarchi - Original track by Oren Ambarchi taken from the album HUBRIS (Editions Mego EMEGO 227) -. Villalobos expertly tranforms Ambarchi's layered web of countless sustained and pulsating palm-muted guitars into a funky, mesmerising and propulsive long-form piece. - Photograph by Estelle Hanania - Sculptures by Daniel Druet - Design by Stephen O'Malley - Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering Record Label: Black Truffle Style: Techno/House

Record Label: Black Truffle Style: Experimental

Artist: 3/4hadbeeneliminated Label: Black Truffle