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"Deluxe reissue to mark the 40th anniversary of the vinyl release in October 1983!

Remastered CD version, finally accompanied by the 32-page booklet originally dreamed of but abandoned at the time due to lack of financial reso...

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"The band showed up, four folks from three different spots on the globe - Chicago (Vandermark, Reid); Nickelsdorf, Austria (Gustafsson); Philadelphia (Taylor). They assembled their gear and sound-checked at the studio. There was a four-...

"Black Truffle presents a new edition of Kassel Jaeger's Fernweh, returning Francois J. Bonnet's electroacoustic project to the label five years after the acclaimed Meith. Originally released on Giuseppe Ielasi and Jennifer Veillerobe's...

"No previous album in their 14-year history will prepare you for the gleeful lunacy of Shishiodoshi (July 11, 2025 via Circum/Libra), the latest CD from Kaze, the cooperative quartet featuring Japanese composer-pianist Satoko Fujii and ...

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"Add to Lazro and Avenel Tristan Honsinger, and one evening on May 9, 1982, at the Dunois, breathe a great air of freedom. We savored these gusts of strings, entwined, propelled by some generous impulse toward a benevolent cosmos, one i...

"Recorded on December 13, 2009 at Les Instants Chavires in Montreuil. Cover: a lithograph by Karel Appel. Marteau Rouge, a legendary band composed of Jean-Marc Foussat (VCS3 synth, toy vocals), Jean Francois Pauvros (guitars, vocals), a...

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Rémy Bélanger de Beauport
Rémy Bélanger de Beauport's roots run deep in Quebec City, where he grew up and is now an activator in the city's improvised music scene. An artist, cellist, and impro...

"If you're into the avant-punk scene and a fan of improvisation and diversity, prepare all your flabbers to be ghasted. Balloons on Grass is the debut release you will be playing on repeat for the next month, thanks to powerhouse multi...

A remarkable first meeting between legendary Japanese pianist Masahiko Satoh and Greek guitarist Giotis Damianidis, recorded live in Chiba, Japan, where their distinct musical voices — acoustic piano steeped in classical and post-bop cadences and effects-laden electric guitar with rock overtones — intertwine in a boundary-erasing, expressive free improv set of intensity, elegance, and mutual discovery.

A fiercely expressive and genre-defying second release from Matt Hollenberg's Shardik, blending avant-garde classical, math metal, free jazz, and world music in a searing and politically charged statement performed with virtuosic intensity by Hollenberg, Nagano, Jost, and Sher, delivering complex forms, daring harmonies, and relentless creative fire.

"Sun Ra's Nuits de la Fondation Maeght recordings are legendary within his extensive canon. Across two nights in August 1970, these were the first concerts Ra and the Arkestra had performed outside North America and formed part of a ste...

"Strut proudly presents a new edition of one of Sun Ra's most celebrated albums, Sleeping Beauty, reissued in its original artwork for the first time. Originally released in 1979 on his independent Saturn label, Sleeping Beauty captures...

"This old companionship of Jean-Marc Foussat and Marc Dufourd dates back to the heroic days of Axolotl, when young musicians were looking for a way to surpass - by the hard shoulder - both jazz and rock that they loved but that, decentl...

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"Choreographer Daniel Linehan's 'The Wonder Of It All' radiates joy and togetherness. From cerebral to wildly energetic, the piece feels like a ritual that slowly transforms into a euphoric dance party. Creating the music for this was a...