Sonic Pieces HHV Records 19 Items

LP | 2021 | DE | Original (Sonic Pieces)

Release: 2025 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Rauelsson's third solo album for Sonic Pieces focuses on simplicity and minimalism. It recalibrates his love for ambient with an austere approach that conjures an atmosphere of silence and solitude. On Niu, the artist has traded his craft for shimmering layers of sound clusters and electronic editing in favor of a predominantly raw and acoustic recording.

Recorded primarily in Sofia and Berlin and mixed at Saal 3 of Funkhaus Berlin, Niu presents a 9-song journey that includes orchestral compositions, delicate synth miniatures, and sparse brass and woodwind drones with room for spoken word and a hint of psychedelic noir fable. The result is an album that, despite the eclectic choice of instrumentation, paints a landscape of spiritual clarity; an album that without being typically classical, still feels like a classical album. Three themes vary across the 9 pieces, starting with the purely orchestral "Prelude No. 7" before moving on to airy synth bass arpeggio and pedal steel. With more changing instruments, Raúl next takes us into a fairytale flute composition with guest flutist Heather Woods Broderick and brass vibrations by the trio Zinc & Copper. Finally, Katrine Grarup Elbo recites a poem by Raúl, ending the piece on a somber but beautiful note. The rest of the album continues in this vein, creating a unique sound that surprises the listener at every turn. Niu is a real departure from the artist's previous works in both scope and musicality. Everything was recorded without overdubs and with only minimal editing, trying to preserve the feeling of music coming from a room where musicians play live. Overall, this is music that finds comfort in movement as much as in pause and silence; music in which tenderness and tension exist in the same gesture.

The album also follows a certain mysticism with its poetic interludes, alternate track lists and titles like "Podium Of Riddles", "A Keyhole-Shaped Island" and "Ceramic Swallows, Set Of 3". Perhaps, given enough time, a hidden meaning or a new perception will be revealed. Niu is also set to be expanded into an art book, containing poems and photographs by Raúl, as well as an exhibition. Perhaps the key lies somewhere in there.

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Otto A. Totland

Companion

49,99 €*

Release: 2021 / DE – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 2018 | DE | Original (Sonic Pieces)

Otto A. Totland

The Lost

19,99 €*

Release: 2018 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sonic Pieces)

Cisser Maehl

Innemuseum

37,99 €*

Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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»Innemuseum« is the debut album by Danish composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Cisser Mæhl. The 10 fragile compositions for vocals, sparse electronics and a myriad of instrumentation illuminate a hushed charm unlike few other Sonic Pieces releases to date. This is undeniably a very personal record that sounds like the musical embodiment of Cisser herself. She sings in Danish in a close-miked way like she's sitting right next to you, all while gentle rhythms and soft strings together create a sort of bright, minimal chamber music with hints of pop sensibility. It almost feels like a Scandinavian reflection of Colleen's work in her more quiet, vocal periods. A music box of weightless compositions for the conscious mind.

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Pan Tone

LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Sonic Pieces)

26,99 €*

Hauschka With Rob Petit & Robert Macfarlane

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Volker Bertelmann and Hildur Guðnadóttir hardly need an introduction - their distinct styles have graced the speakers of pretty much anyone enamored with experimental music in the last decade, and between them the two have chalked up an enviable canon of successes. Bertelmann, under the Hauschka moniker has explored the extremities of prepared piano improvisation, and Guðnadóttir has taken cinematic, explorative cello music into a new era of depth and passion, so to hear them both together is a rare and unexpected treat. Rare is putting it lightly even - „Pan Tone“ is a recording of a single concert which the duo performed on the 26th of February 2010 as part of Arctic Circle - Bubbly Blue and Green festival at Kings Place in London, and documents an event that would truly never be repeated. Sure, they could attempt to re-create the event, but the spontaneity and glorious serendipity in this particular recording is a pleasure to behold.

Bertelmann and Guðnadóttir decided to create a set of compositions which based on the idea of the ocean, and took a book of Pantones to extract exact references to the specific colors of the sea. These watery tones form the backbone of the performance and inform the direction of the collaboration, guiding us through rich blues, glassy greens and frothy whites. In listening to the music it seems incredibly appropriate that the artists should choose blue as the middle ground in their work; the ineffable lightness that Bertelmann brings to the table is a stark contrast to Guðnadóttir´s sinking darkness, and as the two styles collide we witness a plethora of tones, shades and hues. It sounds as if the two artists have been playing together for decades, and their sound is so perfectly matched you might wonder why it´s taken them this long to collaborate. All that´s left for us to do is to soak in the tidal beauty of this very exclusive body of music, to listen to it sing, bubble and crash through its duration before settling in total silence. When the record reaches its conclusion there is an unsettling calm, a sense that you have witnessed something very special indeed, and that is a feeling to prize amongst all else.

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Upstream

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sonic Pieces)

31,99 €*

Jasmine Guffond & Erik K Skodvin

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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German pianist and composer Hauschka returns to Sonic Pieces with music for the experimental film Upstream. Together with filmmaker Rob Petit and acclaimed writer Robert Macfarlane he has created a slow-moving dream-flight into wildness and winter through an eerie, hypnotic soundtrack of the Scottish highlands. The film, which is shot entirely from the air, follows the course of the River Dee in Scotland all the way to its source in the Cairngorm mountains, the highest of any river in Britain. The soundtrack to the film, seen here, is without doubt Hauschka´s most brooding, deep work and we find him in a much darker mood in contrast to his Oscar-nominated works for Hollywood films. The variation of cello, prepared piano, poems, sound effects and occasional synth create a ghostly sound as if a shadow was slowly moving through the Scottish winter. One can hear a faint echo of David Darling´s Dark Wood era in the empty, dark beauty of the bow - performed by Insa Schirmer. Hauschka sheds his more rhythmic, entertaining side to reveal something new. Together with Petit & Macfarlane he embraces the comfort and force of nature to truly mesmerising effect. The last and shortest piece of the album Uisge dhè as well as the digital bonus track Here the Heart Fills include prose poems written by Robert Macfarlane voiced in Gaelic and English by Niall Gordàn & Julie Fowlis. The naked words spoken over haunting sound recordings of the River Dee and its source, create a mystical atmosphere heightened only by sparse cello passages. A strange, beautiful and captivating album that stands alone as a truly transportive piece of work: close your eyes and travel... Upstream.

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The Burrow

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Sonic Pieces)

31,99 €*

LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Sonic Pieces)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In early 2019, at the Sonic Pieces 10 year anniversary in Berlin, label head Monique Recknagelpicked three duos from the imprint to perform live together for the first time. One of the collaborations was between Deaf Center's Erik K Skodvin and electronic composer Jasmine Guffond. Six months later, Guffond and Skodvin headed to Berlin's Vox-ton studio and recorded for two days, joined by Finnish musician Merja Kokkonen (Islaja), who improvised wordless vocals. With Guffond on laptop and a cymbal and Skodvin using piano, feedback, farfisa organ and percussion, the two composed an album of deep, enveloping sound that slithers through genre, absorbing Kokkonen's unique voice into five intricate and evolving pieces.

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Jasmine Guffond

Yellow Bell

22,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Sonic Pieces)

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Jasmine Guffond is an original creator of conceptual sound. Yellow Bell presents a broad spectrum of musicality, floating within hazy electronics, lost vocals, and ambient dimensions. The balance of digital synthesizer, loops, processed voice, and guitar creates a meticulous soundscape that both intrigues and calms. With its delicacy and immediacy, Yellow Bell distorts the perception of time and creates an environment for engagement and understanding. While creating its own memorable dynamic, Yellow Bell resonates with the delayed endlessness of Grouper or lovesliescrushing and touches on the early electronic sounds of Musique concrete.

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F.S. Blumm

In Sight

27,99 €*

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Sonic Pieces)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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F.S.Blumm is a man most might not know. He ́s no pop artist, and not overtly experimental either. But somehow with In Sight he has done the impossible: put his own sound in that perfect middle point, leaving his voice behind to deep-dive into some truly memorable, fully composed pieces. This is F.S. Blumm on his finest, creating some of the most thought provoking instrumental music you can find in these parts of the world.

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Otto A Totland

The Lost

20,99 €*

Moon Ate The Dark I + II Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Lost follows and expands on Otto A Totland's intimate debut solo piano album Pinô from 2014. Once again several days were spent in Nils Frahm's legendary Durton studio to lay down both composed and improvised pieces of quiet beauty. While mostly residing in a small Norwegian coastal town, Otto has been trying to escape the constant movement towards fast paced, polluted lives, where it seems like sounds and impressions never stop.

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Moon Ate The Dark

2LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Sonic Pieces)

26,99 €*

Music For Lovers Music Versus Time / Music For Wobbling Music Versus Gravity Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2nd Edition With their second album Moon Ate the Dark is taking the next step of contemporary piano composition. Moving on from their well-received debut album in 2012, Moon Ate the Dark II is based on an extraordinary playful and varied approach to melodies and drones with dedication to subtle, yet complex details.

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F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm

2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Sonic Pieces)

28,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A duo can be the most magical of things, and it seems like the meeting of minds between Morr Music veteran F.S.Blumm and contemporary classical darling Nils Frahm was a match made in heaven. The ease in which they perform together is the first noticeable thing on ‘Music for wobbling Music versus gravity’ – there is a discernable weightlessness to their sound as they circle around each other, moving and meeting, touching with their musical fingertips.

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2LP | 2020 | DE | Reissue (Sonic Pieces)

Flare / Flame

33,99 €*

Release: 2020 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

CD | 2023 | DE | Original (Sonic Pieces)

Nothing Left But Silence

29,99 €*

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Includes booklet.

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CD | 2010 | DE | Original (Sonic Pieces)

Flare

9,49 €* 9,99 € -5%

Release: 2010 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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CD | 2014 | DE | Reissue (Sonic Pieces)

Flame

14,24 €* 14,99 € -5%

Ultra-Minimal White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2014 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Limited edition repress

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Sylvain Chauveau

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Sonic Pieces)

47,99 €*

Le Livre Noir Du Capitalisme Natural Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Sylvain Chauveau has been releasing quiet and minimal compositions on various labels for more than two decades. »ultra-minimal« marks his debut for Sonic Pieces and takes the minimal approach even further, centring on reduction and limitation. Itwas recorded live at Café Oto, at one of Sylvain’s rare solo concerts and the first time he performed publicly with only acoustic instruments; no machines, no recorded sounds have been used, only piano, guitar, harmonium and melodica, played one at the time.

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Sylvain Chauveau

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Sonic Pieces)

54,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sonic Pieces)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Sylvain Chauveau's debut album »Le livre noir du capitalisme« is a melancholic milestone – and a precursor of what later would become the Modern Classical genre. With his release in 2000, Chauveau created a landmark of contemporary electronic music, parallel to the first releases of Jóhann Jóhannsson and Max Richter.

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Erik K Skodvin

Nothing Left But Silence

44,99 €*