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Rogers / Dunmall / Bianco: Dig Deep Trio

Label: FMR
Catalog ID: FMRCD3014-0511
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: UK

The British improvising trio of tenor saxophonist Paul Dunmall, 7-string bassist Paul Rogers and drummer Tony Bianco performing two long and serpentine improvisations at Delbury Hall, Shropshire in 2010.

Lazro / Pauvros / Turner: Curare [VINYL]

Label: NoBusiness
Catalog ID: NBLP43
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Lithuania

The collective trio of Daunik Lazro (baritone & alto saxophones), Jean-Francois Pauvros (guitar) and Roger Turner (drums & percussion) performing live at Instants Chavires (Montreuil) & at festival Jazz En Franche-Comte (Besancon).

Lazro, Daunik: Curare

Label: NoBusiness
Catalog ID: NBCD38
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Lithuania

The collective trio of Daunik Lazro (baritone & alto saxophones), Jean-Francois Pauvros (guitar) and Roger Turner (drums & percussion) performing live at Instants Chavires (Montreuil) & at festival Jazz En Franche-Comte (Besancon).

Takayanagi, Masayuki: Archive 2

Label: Jinya Disc
Catalog ID: B-28
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Japan

Japan's Jinya Disc continues their archive series of guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi with this concert from 1984 at Jean Jean in Shibuya peforming with his New Direction Unit (Akira Iijima, Hiroshi Yamzaki and Akira Sasaki).

Borbetomagus: Songs Our Mother Taught Us

Label: Agaric
Catalog ID: Agaric 1995
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 1999
Country: USA

Three performances from London and Glasgow from New York saxophonists Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich, and guitarist Donald Miller, playing through pedals and distortion devices in unique and irascible free improvisations.

Bettis, Chuck: Sonic Sigils [CD EP]

Label: Scarcelight
Catalog ID: 22
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2004
Country: USA

An electronic work from NY experimenter Chuck Bettis in a 3" CD embedded in a full 5" disc, aural assaults and abstracted noise in complex patterns with unexpected twists and turns.

Nakamura, Toshimaru / John Butcher: Dusted Machinery

Label: Monotype
Catalog ID: mono041
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Poland

Collaborating since 2002 saxophonist John Butcher and no-input mixing board artist Toshimaru Nakamura made these recordings during David Sylvian's "When we return you won't recognise us" project.

Trance And The Arcade, The: Harmonic Architecture

Label: Mass Particles
Catalog ID: 4
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 1999
Country: USA

Experimental artist Chuck Bettis' first sonic exploration into the electronic avant garde, unusual works for guitar, keyboard drum machine and sampler, a factory pressed but hand constructed release.

Borbetomagus: Black Album

Label: Agaric
Catalog ID: Agaric 1982
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

The Borbetomagus trio of Jim Sauter (sax), Don Dietrich (reeds) and Donald Miller (guitar) in a 1982 release on their own Agaric label, high volume jazz compiled from concerts in 1979 and 1981.

Tabuenca, Luis / Wade Matthews: Punto Cero Aragon

Label: Aural Terrains
Catalog ID: TRRN0516
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Greece/UK

A sound project by experimental musician Luis Tabuenca with Wade Matthews and ethnomusicologist Ana Maria Alarcon-Jimenez, inspired by the sonic heritage of Aragon, in pieces that reflect and question issues of memory, space & place.

Chrysakis, Thanos / Philip Somervell: Knotted Alembic

Label: Aural Terrains
Catalog ID: TRRN0517
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Greece/UK

The 7 part "Knotted Alembic" is an improvisation between electroacoustic artist and label leader Thanos Chrysakis and Brazilian based Chilean pianist Philip Somervell performing inside and out of the piano.

Golia / Phillips / Leandre / Turetzky / Mezzacappa: The Ethnic Project

Label: Kadima
Catalog ID: 34
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Israel

Multi-reedist Vinny Golia playing ethnic woodwinds including danso, kaval, moxeneo, marori bone flute, &c. in a series of duets with Barre Phillips, Joelle Leandre, Bert Turetzky, and Lisa Mezzacappa.

Michalowski, Piotr / Jaime Rodriguez Matos / Christopher M. Skebo: Dyads

Label: Abzu
Catalog ID: abzu 006
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

A trio of Michigan creative music improvisers with wind player Piotr Michalowski, guitarist Jaime Rodriguez Matos and bassist/trumpter/percussionist Christopher M. Skebo in 3 studio and one live recording.

Gayle, Charles: Streets

Label: Northern Spy
Catalog ID: NSCD018
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

Legendary NY free jazz saxophonist Charles Gayle takes to "the streets" with his trio of bassist Larry Roland and drummer Michael TA Thompson in a record illustrating Gayle's passionate voice and expressive dialog.

Tres Hongos: Where My Dreams Go To Die

Label: Molk Records
Catalog ID: molk 11
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2012
Country: USA

New York trumpeter Jacob Wick, Chicago pianist Marc Riordan, and percussionist Frank Rosaly are Tres Hongos, here performing long and short form improvisations live at Audio For the Arts in WI, and at Strobe Recording in Chicago.

Rockmore, Clara: Theremin: Music In and On The Air

Label: Romeo Records
Catalog ID: ROMEO 7286CD
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

In 1979 preeminent theremin player Clara Rockmore performed for New York's WQXR "Listening Room" series, performing in the New York Times building, playing solo and chamber pieces to a full auditorium.

Haunted House (Loren Connors): Blue Ghost Blues

Label: Northern Spy
Catalog ID: NSCD012
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

Avant blues in Haunted House's return after 10 years, as guitarists Loren Connors and Andrew Burnes, free-form vocalist Suzanne Langille and daf player Neel Murgai burn slow, distorted, reverb-drenched blues.

Haunted House (Loren Connors): Blue Ghost Blues [VINYL]

Label: Northern Spy
Catalog ID: NSLP012
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

Avant blues in Haunted House's return after 10 years, as guitarists Loren Connors and Andrew Burnes, free-form vocalist Suzanne Langille and daf player Neel Murgai burn slow, distorted, reverb-drenched blues.

Kang, Eyvind: Visible Breath [VINYL]

Label: Ideologic Organ
Catalog ID: SOMA 004LP
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: France

Violist Eyvind Kang in an album with vocalist Jessika Kenney, plus Stewart Dempster, Julian Priester, Miguel Frasconi, Steve Moore, Cuong Vu, &c.; side B collects 2 pieces from 2008, and side B is a new work from 2011.

Starving Weirdos: Land Lines

Label: Amish Records
Catalog ID: AMI 044CD
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2012
Country: USA

Mixing electroacoustic approaches with world flavors and an ecstatic attitude, Starving Weirdo's (Brian Pyle, Merrick Merrick & co.) create a rich freeform album of lush beauty and sonic investigation.

Starving Weirdos: Land Lines [VINYL]

Label: Amish Records
Catalog ID: AMI 044LP
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2012
Country: USA

Mixing electroacoustic approaches with world flavors and an ecstatic attitude, Starving Weirdo's (Brian Pyle, Merrick Merrick & co.) create a rich freeform album of lush beauty and sonic investigation.

Wastell, Mark / Rhodri Davies: Live In Melbourne

Label: Mikroton Recordings
Catalog ID: mikroton cd 10
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Russia

Using low-fi electronics, mixing desk, delay pedals, contact mic, sand paper, singing bowls, &c. &c., Rhodri Davis and Mark Wastell create an amazing audio environment, captured live at the Melbourne Festival in 2005.

Mincek, Alex (Wet Ink Ensemble / Jack Quartet / Michael Ibrahim / Eric Poland): lift-tift-filter-split

Label: Carrier Records
Catalog ID: 011
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

The first full-length recording dedicated solely to New York-based composer and performer Alex Mincek's concert music, diverse collections of sound-from fragile timbres teetering on the brink of inaudibility to raucous outbursts.

Arnal / Eichmann / Huges / Wiens: Pail Bug

Label: Generate Records
Catalog ID: gen 18
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

Dietrich Eichmann (piano), John Hughes (double bass), Astrid Weins (bass) & Jeff Arnal (percussion) in improvisations that magnify small sounds and gestures in a collective understanding of real-time orchestration.

Moe! Staiano: Surplus 1980

Label: Dephine Knormal Musik
Catalog ID: DKM12
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

Drummer Moe! Staiano in a hard-hitting band with members from the Ex, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faun Fables, and Mute Socialite, collecting songs that extend from those bands, along with great drumming and sound work.

Moe! Staiano: Surplus 1980 [VINYL LP + 7"]

Label: Dephine Knormal Musik
Catalog ID: DKM 12LP
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

Drummer Moe! Staiano in a hard-hitting band with members from the Ex, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faun Fables, and Mute Socialite, collecting songs that extend from those bands, along with great drumming and sound work.

Chadbourne, Eugene And The Dropouts: Zupa Dupa Kupa [VINYL]

Label: Monotype
Catalog ID: monoLP007
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Poland

Eugene Chadbourne and the Dropouts (Fingle Schmincter, Abby von Pinkula, Pink Bob, SGT. Billy Capsize and Brian Reedy) in a studio release of original Doc Chad songs.

Dorner / Dafeldecker / Johansson: Der Kreis Des Gegenstandes [VINYL]

Label: Monotype
Catalog ID: monoLP008
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2010
Country: Poland

The electroacoustic improvising trio of trumpeter/electronic artist Axel Dorner, bassist Werner Dafeldecker and percussionist Sven-Ake Johansson in a studio release from Gothenburg, 2010.

Cardew, Cornelius: The Great Learning [4 CDs]

Label: Bolt
Catalog ID: BR 1008
Format: 4 CDs
Condition: New
Released: 2010
Country: Poland

A nearly 5-hour long recording of Cornelius Cardew's work based on one of the 4 classic books of Confucian religion, and the first work to be referred to as minimalist, performed at Wigry in Sejny, 2010.

Various Artists: PRES Revisited. Jozef Patkowski In Memoriam

Label: Bolt
Catalog ID: BR ES01
Format: 2 CDs
Condition: New
Released: 2010
Country: Poland

Recordings of a concert at London's Cafe Oto dedicated to Jozef Patkowski's Polish Radio Experimental Studio (CD2), which are transformed in the studio by John Tilbury, Eddie Prevost, Phil Durrant, Maciej Sledziecki & Mikolaj Palosz (CD1).

Zeitkratzer: plays PRES

Label: Bolt
Catalog ID: BR ES03
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2010
Country: Poland

International contemporary music group Zeitkratzer directed by Reinhold Friedl performs reinterpreted instrumental version of six pieces representing different stages of Polish Radio Experimental Studio's history.

Gonzalez Yells at Eels, Dennis: Resurrection and Life

Label: Ayler
Catalog ID: AYLCD-125
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Sweden

Named for the miraculous recovery of drummer and AACM founder Alvin Fielder, who travelled to Dallas in 2010 to record with trumpeter Gonzalez and his sons bassist Aaron and vibraphonist STefan, with Gaika James on trombone.

Stone Quartet (Leandre / Campbell / Crispell / Maneri): Live at Vision Festival

Label: Ayler
Catalog ID: AYLCD 124
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Sweden

Bassist Joelle Leandre's drumless quartet with NY trumpeter Roy Campbell, pianist Marilyn Crispell and violist Mat Maneri performing at the Vision Festival in 2010, one of the highlights of that year's festival.

Menche, Daniel: Guts

Label: Editions Mego
Catalog ID: EMEGO 138CD
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2012
Country: Australia

Sound artist Daniel Menche uses the piano to attack, investigate and dissect the instrument through preparations which he describes as "abused and thrashed piano guts".

Art Zoyd: Symphonie Pour Le Jour Ou Bruleront Les Cites

Label: Sub Rosa
Catalog ID: SR 330CD
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Belgium

Art Zoyd's 3rd official release from 1980 is a re-recorded version of their 1st 1976 LP, presenting a stronger take on this original Rock In Opposition chamber band's composition, a dark and twisted take on modern music.

WPB3 (Werchowska / Pontevia / Boubaker): A Floating World

Label: Mikroton Recordings
Catalog ID: mikroton cd 9
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Russia

The French WPB3 trio explores areas between abstract minimalist contemporary concrete instrumental improvised music and energetic noisy free jazz with an uncompromisingly totally free approach

eRikm / Norbert Moslang: Stodgy

Label: Mikroton Recordings
Catalog ID: mikroton cd 11
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Russia

eRikm on 3k Pad Loop System, Electronics and Norbert Moslang playing Cracked Everyday Electronics in a collection of recordings from European concerts performed between 2002 and 2005; produced by Guiseppe Ielasi. .

Nagai, Seiji: Electronic Noise Improvisation 1999 [2 VINYL LPs]

Label: KLIMT
Catalog ID: MJJ 326LP
Format: 2 LPs
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: France

Seiji Nagai, trumpeter and keyboardist for Taj Mahal Travellers, in a reissue of his 1999 release with Koichi Watanabe, Koji Kawai and Minoru Yonemoto, dense drone work from computers and electronic instruments.

Wire, The: #336 February 2012 [MAGAZINE]

Label: The Wire
Catalog ID: WIRE 336
Format: MAGAZINE
Condition: New
Released: 2012
Country: UK

On the cover: Lil B; Features: Keith Fullerton Whitman; ICES 72; Collateral Damage; Invisible Jukebox with Charles Hayward; Ian Helliwell; Epiphanies: Linder Sterling: Global Ear; Dave Stelfox in Jaipur; &c.

Feldman, Morton: Orchestra

Label: Mode Records
Catalog ID: mode 238
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

First recording of Morton Feldman's 1976 composition "Orchestra" plus 4 other works including a graphic score, performed by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchster Berlin conducted by Brad Lubman.

Menche, Daniel: Guts [VINYL 2 LPs]

Label: Editions Mego
Catalog ID: EMEGO 138LP
Format: 2 LPs
Condition: New
Released: 2012
Country: Australia

Sound artist Daniel Menche uses the piano to attack, investigate and dissect the instrument through preparations which he describes as "abused and thrashed piano guts".

Art Zoyd: Symphonie Pour Le Jour Ou Bruleront Les Cites [VINYL]

Label: Sub Rosa
Catalog ID: SR 330LP
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Belgium

Art Zoyd's 3rd official release from 1980 is a re-recorded version of their 1st 1976 LP, presenting a stronger take on this original Rock In Opposition chamber band's composition, a dark and twisted take on modern music.

Mothers Of Invention, The: FZ at Artisan [VINYL]

Label: B13
Catalog ID: B 152LP
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Italy

Rare live versions of tracks recorded during the Mothers' first European tour (Autumn 1968) and at various locations around the USA (mostly in 1969, the year Zappa broke up the band for the first time).

sim: sec:ond sim

Label: Doubtmusic
Catalog ID: dms-143
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Japan

The Japanese post-rock trio Sim (Oshima Teruyuki (guitar), Ootani Yoshio(electronics) and Uemura Masahiro(drums)) play a compelling stripped-down odd-rhythmic yet funky instrumental rock with unusual electronic counterpoint.

Subotnick, Morton: Electronic Works 3

Label: Mode Records
Catalog ID: mode 237 CD
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

The first CD and surround release of Subotnick's quadrophonic work for analog tape "4 Butterflies", and a live remix/recomposition of the classic tape piece "Until Spring as Until Spring: Revisited".

Subotnick, Morton: Electronic Works 3

Label: Mode Records
Catalog ID: mode 237 DVD
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

The first DVD and surround release of Subotnick's work for analog tape "4 Butterflies", and a live remix/recomposition of the tape piece "Until Spring as Until Spring: Revisited", plus "A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur".

Rowe, Keith / John Tilbury: E.E. Tension And Circumstance

Label: Potlatch
Catalog ID: P311
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: France

The first meeting of AMM guitarist Keith Rowe and pianist John Tilbury after Rowe departed in 2004, a delicate and intricate long improvisation, fascinating dialog between two long-acquainted and innovative conversationalists.

Burk Trio, Greg : Path Here

Label: 482 Music
Catalog ID: 4821077
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

Rome-based pianist Greg Burke in his 5th 482 Music release with Jonathan Robinson on bass and thumb piano and Gerald Cleaver on drums, a beautiful jazz trio album with delightfully innovative and catchy compositions.

Taj Mahal Travellers: Live at Sohgetsu Hall in Tokyo, July, 15 1972 [VINYL]

Label: KLIMT
Catalog ID: MJJ 327LP
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: France

After returning from a year-long tour of Europe and Asia, Taj Mahal Travellers returned home to Tokyo for this concert in 1972 at Tokyo's Sohgetsu Hall, originally released on CBS Japan the same year.

Jono El Grande: The Choko King [VINYL]

Label: Rune Grammofon
Catalog ID: RALP 307LP
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Norway

Recordings from the skewed and complex rock work of Jono El Grande covering material from 1995-2008, some pre-dating his first album, giving a glimpse at the surreal and meticulous musical universe he's developed.

Hell Hoarse: Skull Puddle

Label: Living Myth / Uppercase
Catalog ID: 2 / 6
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2010
Country: USA

Last copies of this duo between Brendan Murray on electronics and Chuck Bettis on electronics & throat, a disturbing and engrossing album of voice manipulation, samples and electronics.

Borbetomagus: Coelacanth [7" VINYL]

Label: Butt Rag
Catalog ID: BR006
Format: 7" Record
Condition: New
Released: 1993
Country: USA

Savage noise jazz in a rare 7" from the early 90s by the trio of saxophonists Don Dietrich and Jim Sauter and electric guitarist Donald Miller, two live version of "Coelacanth" recorded a year apart.

Taj Mahal Travellers: Live At The Moderna Museet In Stockholm, July, 1 & 9 1971 [2 VINYL LPs]

Label: KLIMT
Catalog ID: MJJ 328LP
Format: 2 LPs
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: France

Takehisa Kosugi's Taj Mahal Travellers were the premiere Japanese experimental rock band of the 1970s, as demonstrated in this 1971 live recording in the geodesic dome at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Korekyojinn with Tsuboy Akihisa: Doldrums

Label: Magaibutsu Limited
Catalog ID: MGC-41
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Japan

Korekyojinn (Yoshida Tatsuya, Nasuno Mitsuru and Kido Natuski) in their 7th release, joined by violinist Akihisa Tsuboy, recorded live at Tokyo's Koenji High, Lush, and Missions from 2008-2010.

Sorites Paradox: Sorites Paradox

Label: Magaibutsu
Catalog ID: MGC-38
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Japan

Eccentric Japanese vocalist Makigami Koichi joins Ruins/Korekyojinn drummer Yoshida Tatsuya, Altered States guitarist Uchihashi Kazuhisa, and Shimizu Kazuto (Hikasu) for an album of impressive and slightly deranged rock.

Ishiwarizakura: Okuno Hosomichi

Label: Magaibutsu Limited
Catalog ID: MGC-40
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Japan

A live recording of this quartet from the Iwate Prefecture in the Tohoku region of Japan, improvised and impressive rock from Yoshida Tatsuya (drums), Nasuno Mitsuru (bass), Kita Naoki (violin) and Murakami Naoki (guitar).

Gjerstad, Frode / Peter Brotzmann: Soria Moria

Label: FMR
Catalog ID: FMRCD126-L0603
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2003
Country: UK

A great duo recording on clarinets and terrogoto from multi-reedist Frode Gjerstad and legendary free jazz musician Peter Brotzmann, incredible free improvisation from two masters.

AALY / DKV Trio: Double Or Nothing

Label: Okka
Catalog ID: 12035
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2002
Country: USA

The Swedish AALY with Mats Gustafsson, Kjell Nordeson and Ingebrigt Haker Flaten meet the Chicago based DKV with Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler and Hamid Drake for three extended and awe-inspiring recordings.

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O: Live As Troubadour [VINYL]

Label: Important Records
Catalog ID: IMPREC 331LP
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: USA

First ever live acoustic recordings from The Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO, performing live in Nagoya with acoustic versions of fan favorites 'Pink Lady Lemonade' & 'La Novia', &c.

Tyranny, 'Blue' Gene: Detours

Label: Unseen Worlds
Catalog ID: UW 007CD
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2012
Country: USA

A beautifully recorded collection of tracks composed between 2004 and 2010 from "Blue" Gene Tyranny, four works with unique histories; beautifully rendered and elegant compositions.