Cellist Khabat Abas and violist Ivor Kallin engage in a taut, exploratory duo dialogue built from extended techniques, fractured vocalizations, and deliberate use of space, where cantankerous textures, unconventional pacing, and carefully placed silences shape a curiously absorbing improvisation that balances raw intensity with focused restraint.

"Double bass-player Pierpaolo Martino has worked with Steve Beresford in the past, as part of the trio, Frequency Disasters. Together with drummer, Valentina Magaletti, they've already had two albums released on Confront Recordings. Her...

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The Berlin trio of Miako Klein (recorders), Magda Mayas (piano), and Biliana Voutchkova (violin, voice) further refine their fully improvised approach into an immersive sonic practice, where sustained textures, extended techniques, and collective restraint blur individual voices into a cohesive, ever-shifting sound world, captured at the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Kunst in Berlin.

Operating under the Jaw Surgery moniker, Filipino noise artist Chester Masangya constructs a ritualized power-electronics work driven by distortion, breath, and deliberate restraint, where extended techniques, hostile pressure, and ceremonial pacing collide in a stark, uncompromising exploration of spiritual collapse, sonic violence, and meditative endurance at the outer limits of noise.

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Recorded live at BOTA in Lisbon, José Lencastre (alto and tenor saxophones), João Hasselberg (double bass, electronics), and Kresten Osgood (drums, voice) deliver an intensely interactive trio performance where volatile free-jazz momentum, sudden textural shifts, and Osgood's striking vocal presence fuel a restless, sharply focused improvisation built on risk and collective responsiveness.

Recorded live at the Alchemia Club in Krakow, Joe McPhee (reeds) and Steve Swell (trombone) join Mark Tokar (bass) and Klaus Kugel (drums) for a sharply interactive quartet session that moves from tight, prickling exchanges to wide-open collective surges, anchored by the twenty-eight-minute "Joy And Imagination Are Uncontainable."

"The continuation of Tomeka's working quartet, and follow up to their very successful 2024 release 3 + 3. The band is touring Japan in December, and we'll have merch (and press copies) in hand soon. This one was recorded in Richmond aft...

"The continuation of Tomeka's working quartet, and follow up to their very successful 2024 release 3 + 3. The band is touring Japan in December, and we'll have merch (and press copies) in hand soon. This one was recorded in Richmond aft...

"I had the honor to be part of her "Fats Waller" project, which won the German Record Critics Award for Jazz Album of the Year in 2004. We toured Japan twice, first in 1996 in a special edition of the BCJO, and again in 2014, when Aki j...

Drummer Steve Hirsh, guitarist Matt Hollenberg, and baritone saxophonist Dave Sewelson forge a volatile trio language that blends avant-rock intensity, free-jazz elasticity, and raw electric blues impulses, channeling tightly focused improvisations where ferocious energy, abrupt shifts, and deep mutual trust drive the music beyond genre boundaries into a space that feels both unruly and sharply intentional.

"Play on shuffle to have your own Lethal Lottery every time!"

Reviving Cecil Taylor's legendary Unit concept, this searing New Unit performance with Okkyung Lee (cello), Tony Oxley (electronics), Harri Sjostrom (soprano and sopranino saxophones), and Jackson Krall (drums) documents the final concert of Taylor's life in a nearly eighty-minute fusion of music and spoken word, recorded live on April 23, 2016, at the Whitney Museum in New York City.

Experimental guitarist Fetusk and synthesist Steven Davis collaborate on a brooding electronic work where drones, processed guitars, beats, and field recordings merge into slowly evolving soundscapes, balancing industrial grit, ambient suspension, and textural density in a restrained, immersive exploration of atmosphere and transformation.

Vocalist and composer Anna Gadt joins the Warsaw Cello Quartet in a carefully balanced encounter between composed structure and improvisational expression, where layered cellos and an extended vocal presence explore contrast and convergence through restraint, silence, and a continuously shifting dialogue between sound and abstraction, captured live at Hashtag Lab, in Warszawa.

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