ZÖJ anounces new album
Posted On: 19th of April, 2025
Posted In: ZÖJ, Gelareh Pour, Brian O'Dwyer, Kamancheh, Melbourne Music Week, Australian Music, New Persian Experimentalism, world music, traditional music, Iran, Persian, Parenthèses Records, Tradition, Continuum, current
ZÖJ will be releasing their sophomore album "GIVE WATER TO BIRDS" on June 20th, seeing Gelareh Pour and Brian O'Dwyer collaborating with guitarist Brett Langsford.
"Give Water to Birds" is a testament to quiet resilience and poetic stillness — a deeply introspective work where ancient echoes meet contemporary textures. It's music that lingers long after the last note, tenderly unearthing emotion with every listen.
Prec welcomes
Posted On: 24th of January, 2025
Posted In: Puce Moment, Pénélope Michel, Nico Devos, Cercueil, Lille, Gagaku Music Society, Tenri, Japan, Lawrence English, Tradition, Continuum, Experimental Music, Ambient Music, Ceremonial Music, current
We're proud to welcome Puce Moment into the Prec family.
Based in Lille, France and made of Nicolas Devos and Pénélope Michel, Puce Moment combines visual and sound arts. With backgrounds in fine arts, contemporary arts, and classical music. Their works have been released on fine labels such Sub Rosa, Kito Kat Records and Vaatican Records.
On March 21st 2025, Prec will release Sans Soleil, an immersive musical piece that brings the ancient traditional Japanese music of Gagaku into dialogue with electro-acoustic and electronic music within a liminal soundscape.
Hangman
Posted On: 16th of September, 2023
Posted In: Jina Mahsa Amini, Hangman, woman life freedom, ZÖJ, zojduet, kamancheh, voice Iran, kaiber, runway, midjourney, gelareh pour, brian o dwyer, Hushang Entehaj, McKenna Motion, Parenthèses Records, Tradition, Continuum, Melbourne Recital Center
This is Hangman, Zöj’s first single from Fil o Fenjoon honouring #womanlifefreedom and #mahsaamini anniversary is out today.
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From Gela:
This track’s been recorded at MRC when Brian and Myles left me in the main room and said, just play something. I turned the pages on my book and found this amazing poem by Hushang Ebtehaj, and played and sang this piece for the first time. What you hear is what Myles captured in that moment. Feel free to turn on the caption and read the translation.
Please make sure you post/do something to honour this important revolution today. For freedom for #Iran, for freedom for all women in this world.
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Thank you all for your support and love.
Woman . Life . Freedom
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Welcome ZÖJ
Posted On: 26th of July, 2023
Posted In: Gelareh Pour, Brian O'Dwyer, Persian experimental music, Kamancheh, Qheychak Alto, Drums, Melbourne, Cross-cultural music, intercultural music, Tradition, Continuum
ZÖJ is the ongoing musical conversation between Australian-based Iranian master of the Kamancheh Gelareh Pour and Brian O'Dwyer.
Ethically grounded in interculturalism, ZÖJ seeks to contribute to modern of sustainable and nurtured cross-cultural collaboration and the development of new Australian Music.
Their debut album FIL O FENJOON has been in production since 2021 and will see the light in November 2023.
KEDA releases 3rd album
Posted On: 11th of February, 2023
Posted In: KEDA, Mathias Delplanque, E'Joung-Ju, Korea, Experimental Music, Ambient, Dub, Traditional, Geomungo, Electronics, Parenthèses Records, Festival Printemps Coréen, Compagnie Linga, John Sellekaers, Flow, Continuum, France, Korea, Brussels, Nantes, contemporary dance, Switzerland, Suisse
Invited by Compagnie Linga to compose the musical score of the dance production 'Flow' and perform it live, KEDA created a mesmerizing soundtrack, in which E’Joung-Ju stirs up lively rhythms and melodic fragments of the Korean geomungo, like an electric bass, which Mathias Delplanque captures and mutates in ambient and noise collages, ensuring a hypnotic pull.
Watch the trailer
L'OMBRE DE LA BETE
Posted On: 17th of June, 2022
Posted In: François Robin, Mathias Delplanque, Veuze, Bretagne, Duduk, Mizmar, A la Zim Muzik, electronics, experimental music, Parenthèses Records, Tradition, Continuum, Xango Muzik
Hello friends,
It's been a long time in the making so we are particularly thrilled to share with you the BIG news that our newest release, proudly co-produced with À La Zim Muzik, is now up for PRE-ORDER.
François Robin & Mathias Delplanque are L'OMBRE DE LA BÊTE , an immersive exploration of the organic sound of the VEUZE.
Expect drone flirting with krautrock and traditional music.
The album will see the light on July 1st, coming in a beautiful 4 panels digisleeve with inserted 4 pages booklet, all designed by French visual artists Quentin Faucompré
Until then, 2 tracks are available on both Bandcamp below.
https://lombredelabete.bandcamp.com
https://parenthesesrecords.bandcamp.com
FOCH l DELPLANQUE
Posted On: 19th of May, 2022
Posted In: Philippe Foch, Mathias Delplanque, INA GRM, Improvisation, Percussion
Before releasing SECRET in 2017, improviser and percussionist Philippe Foch & sound artist Mathias Delplanque recorded live at Maison de la Radio et de la Musique - Studio 104 in Paris as part of the "Multiphonies" concert series curated by INA l GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales).
The album will see the light in digital format next July. Head HERE for the teaser.
PR welcomes
Posted On: 8th of December, 2021
Posted In: Parentheses Records, L'ombre de la bête, France, Nantes, Traditional music, britany, bretagne, veuze, Mathias Delplanque, François Robin, A la Zim, bagpipe, cornemuse, electronic music, experimental music
We’re thrilled to welcome L'ombre de la bête to the Parenthèses roster in partnership with french A La Zim!
L'ombre de la bête is a duo made of Mathias Delplanque (electronics) and François Robin, master of the Veuze, a Breton bagpipe found traditionally in southeastern Brittany and in the northern part of the Vendée, particularly around Nantes.
Their music takes inspiration from the traditionals of that region flirts with krautrock, drone and traditional music.
Their album will see the light in spring 2022.
Stay tuned...
PR welcomes
Posted On: 6th of July, 2021
Posted In: Parentheses Records, Mark Cain, Fremantle, Western Australia, Ethnic Music, Traditional Music, Daramad, Osmosis, KULCHA Multicultural Arts of WA, wind instrument, reed, percussion, gamelan, Linsey Pollack
For the label’s fifteenth release, Parenthèses Records is proud to unveil CAMEOS, the new album from West Australian composer, educator, instrument maker and multi-reed specialist Mark Cain.
CAMEOS is a collection of 18 short and enigmatic pieces Cain has written and/or improvised in his home studio in Fremantle, Western Australia. Some pieces were created for the puppet theatre work, Turtle and the Trade Winds and Oddysea with musician colleague, Jamie David. Others were devised for the Cinematic Scores series event in which he composed the accompanying live score to the 1922 American ethnographic documentary, Nanook of the North. Others are pieces he’s recorded that have only now found a home on Cameos.
With CAMEOS Cain charts his interests in traditional music, ethnic instrumentations and improvisation and collides it with his love of wind and percussion instruments from various pockets of the world, including instruments he has made. A lifelong artistic dedication that has been at the core of his work with bands such as Nova Ensemble, Ozmosis, Daramad and his current group, Eastwinds. CAMEOS is a vital and playful record that reveals new perspectives on traditional sounds, an album that countains an atypical sonic universe, revealing new archipelagos on the music map, Cameos could, an album that could easily sit between Stephan Micus and the late John Hassell.
...10 & 10...
Posted On: 6th of May, 2021
Posted In: Parentheses Records, Compilation, Anniversary, Mark Cain, Patrick Graham, John Sellekaers, Masonik, Mathias Delplanque, Philippe Foch, François Robin, L'Ombre de la Bête, Compagnie Linga, KEDA, E'Joung-Ju, GRM, Experimental Music, Ambient, Soundscape, Soundtrack, World Music, Traditionnal, Geoumungo, Percussion, Australia, Canada, Belgium, Quebec, Brussels, Nantes, France, Perth, Fremantle
On December 3 2020, Parenthèses Records turned 10 years with the date marking our first release, « The Vedantic Chapter » by Perth-based sound and visual arts collective Masonik.
12 releases came out in this time-lap (yes, we like to take it slow), all encapsulating the label’s core artistic vision but most of all 12 albums that were true collaborative efforts leading to enduring friendships.
To celebrate the big 10, PR is proud to release two free compilations:
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