Éliane Radigue - Adnos *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 24th July 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Tracklist: 1. Adnos I 2. Adnos II 3. Adnos III

When Eliane Radigue departed this realm in February 2026, at age 94, she left behind a singular, inimitable body of work. Her focus on slowly changing, highly detailed drone music yielded numerous monoliths among which Adnos stands tall. 
 

Composed and recorded on tape between 1973-1982 using an Arp 2500 modular synthesizer, these astonishing pieces exemplify Radigue's quote about how slow changes, vibrations deep within her sounds, ultimately shape the textures of her sonic work: 

"If a stone in the river moves, the river is not changed, but after a long time it becomes something completely different."

This 2026 repress preserves the 2013 package design; a thorough collaboration between Eliane Radigue and John Brien of Important Records. A 24 page booklet of Adnos era archival material accompanies the three compact discs in a heavy duty quad-fold, 8 panel cardboard jacket printed inside and out. 

 

"Time is of no importance. All that counts is the duration necessary for a seamless development. My music evolves organically. It's like a plant. We never see a plant move, but it is growing continually. Like plants, immobile but always growing, my music is never stable. It is ever changing." - Eliane Radigue 

 

"Ms. Radigue, inspired by the idea of moving water as metaphor for sound in motion, writes, 'In the conch formed by sound waves, the ear filters, selects and emphasizes some areas of hearing, just as one's eyes would look at the shimmering of water: at the same time absent and multiple, oriented toward an outside whose image lives reflected in the inner universe.' 'A lot of the best new music can't be captured in sound bites -- you have to listen for a long time. Of no one is that truer than Eliane Radigue, who lives in France, but whose unarticulated time sense brings her closer to La Monte Young in sensibility than to anyone in Europe. Listen to her exquisitely-sculpted electronic works for two, three, even seven minutes, and you may hear nothing but a drone. But over a far longer period, her electronic drones thicken, begin to pulse, and change into complexly gritty textures so gradually that you suddenly wonder why you didn't notice the change. Over the long haul her works crescendo into glacially slow climaxes, bristling with harmonics, inducing in the listener an altered state of ecstatic spirituality.'" - Kyle Gann
 

"A steady stream of sonic activity taking place right at the edge of one's perception." - New York Times
 

"This piece represents the height of musical sensitivity." -  Village Voice
 

"Awe inspiring" - Rhys Chatham

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