John Derek Bishop & Claudio Puntin
RONDO
RONDO is a collaborative album by John Derek Bishop (live sampling, electronics) and Claudio Puntin (clarinet, contrabass clarinet, megaphone), exploring the meeting point between acoustic wind instruments and live electronic transformation.
Recorded live in Berlin, the album captures an intuitive dialogue where extended clarinet techniques are reshaped in real time through live sampling, unfolding into fluid, improvisational soundscapes where acoustic gestures dissolve into electronic textures and back again.
Nortusa Recordings 2026
John Derek Bishop & Inge W. Breistein
"drømmekraft"
"drømmekraft" is the third album from the acclaimed duo John Derek Bishop (sampling, electronics) and Inge Weatherhead Breistein (saxophones), blending Nordic jazz, ambient, experimental electronics, and contemporary music into a meditative and cinematic experience.
Through field recordings, abstract loops, and transformed saxophone textures, the duo creates immersive soundscapes where the sacred meets the industrial, and the acoustic meets the digital.
Jazzland Recordings 2025
John derek bishop
"pi"
“PI” is a piano album by Norwegian producer and musician John Derek Bishop. He has recorded himself playing piano and cut these recordings into 16 short pieces of music. He has focused on creating a minimalistic, fragile and imperfect album. Many layers of piano create a rich sound and texture, and the microphones have been placed close to the piano for an intimate feeling.
Nortusa Recordings 2024
John Derek Bishop
"Flow"
“Flow” is a meditative ambient album by John Derek Bishop inspired by Norwegian nature. It is his most minimalistic album so far and the eleven songs take the listener on a journey through different moods. Bishop recorded the album in his studio at Tou in Stavanger, Norway. The album was mixed by Steven Bishop and mastered by Taylor Deupree.
Jazzland Recordings 2023
Vok ens & john derek Bishop
"sentient"
Six female vocalists are live-sampled by Bishop in this live improvised studio album. The vocalists are Dorothea Økland, Karoline Karlsen, Isabelle Kongshaug, Anna Klungre, Andrea Opdal and Emilie Eie.
Jazzland Recordings 2023
Tortusa
"Bre"
John Derek Bishop (aka. Tortusa) solo album featuring Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Erland Dahlen, Inge W. Breistein, Svein Rikard Mathisen, and Simen Kiil Halvorsen.
Jazzland Recordings, 2021
Dark Star Safari
"Walk Through Lightly"
Dark Star Safari is a musical entity comprised of Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset, Samuel Rohrer and John Derek Bishop. Their second full-length offering Walk Through Lightly is the first to feature all five musicians together in the studio from the outset, making for a more organic refinement upon their already established methodology: gradually sculpting distinct songs out of collective improvisations, or using the raw material from initial recordings as the basis for more carefully articulated compositions.
ArjunaMusic Records, 2021