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Bosetti, Alessandro / Chris Abrahams: A Heart That Responds From Schooling
Bosetti, Alessandro / Chris Abrahams:
A Heart That Responds From Schooling

(Unsounds -- Netherlands )


Price: $15.95    




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The 2nd release from Italian composer/performer Alessandro Bosetti and Australian pianist Chris Abrahams (The Necks), a very intimate album of sonic explorations that spans improvised fragments and original renditions of compositions like Steve Lacy's "Esteem" with Bosetti's lyrics.

Mayas / Buck: gold
Mayas / Buck:
gold

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $15.95    




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Necks drummer and percussion Tony Buck in a duo from December 2007 performing at the dOeK Festival in Bimhuis, Amsterdam with extended technique pianist Magda Mayas.

Necks, The: Chemist
Necks, The:
Chemist

(Recommended Records -- Great Britain )


Price: $15.95    




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Necks, The: Drive By
Necks, The:
Drive By

(Recommended Records -- Great Britain )


Price: $14.95    




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Necks, The: Hanging Gardens
Necks, The:
Hanging Gardens

(Recommended Records -- Great Britain )


Price: $15.95    




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Necks, The: Mosquito / See Through
Necks, The:
Mosquito / See Through

(Recommended Records -- Great Britain )


Price: $22.95    




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Necks, The: Open
Necks, The:
Open

(Northern Spy -- USA )


Price: $12.95    




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The Necks trio of Chris Abrahams (piano), Tony Buck (drums) and Lloyd Swanton (bass) return to their evolving improvisation format, with ethereal arco harmonics, mesmeric piano riffs, subliminal pulses, twittering electronics, and even an arco bass choir.

Necks, The: The Necks Box [8 CD BOX SET]
Necks, The:
The Necks Box [8 CD BOX SET]

(Recommended Records -- Great Britain )


Price: $79.95    




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Formed in Australia the late 1980s by Chris Abrahams, Tony Buck and Lloyd Swanton, the Necks play post-jazz, post-rock, post-everything, slowly morphing improvised music, here in a limited numbered box set presenting 8 of their CDs from the UK Recommended Records label.

Rupp, Olaf / Buck, Tony / Williamson, Joe: Weird Weapons
Rupp, Olaf / Buck, Tony / Williamson, Joe:
Weird Weapons

(Emanem -- Great Britain )


Price: $16.95    




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Weird Weapons (Rupp / Williamson / Buck): 2
Weird Weapons (Rupp / Williamson / Buck):
2

(Creative Sources -- Portugal )


Price: $15.95    




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Bringing together European improvising guitarist Olaf Rupp, Canadian ex-pat bassist Joe Williamson, and Australian drummer Tony Buck from The Necks for an album of busy, fiery, skillful improvisation.

Phillips, Simon James : Blage 3
Phillips, Simon James :
Blage 3

(Mikroton Recordings -- Russia )


Price: $17.95    




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A reduction of composer Simon James Phillips' 5 hour improvisation performed with Tony Buck (drums), Werner Dafeldecker (bass), BJ Nilsen (electronics), Liz Allbee (trumpet), Arthur Rother (guitar) & Simon James Phillips (piano) exploring time, perception and place.

Dixon Orchestra, Bill: 17 Musicians In Search of a Sound: Darfur
Dixon Orchestra, Bill:
17 Musicians In Search of a Sound: Darfur

(Aum Fidelity -- USA )


Price: $14.95    




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Legendary trumpeter, composer and educator Bill Dixon in a 17 piece orchestra playing original compositions live at the 12th Vision Festival in New York City.

Necks, The: Vertigo
Necks, The:
Vertigo

(Northern Spy -- USA )


Price: $13.95    




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The Necks 18th album finds the trio of drummer/percussionist Tony Buck, bassist Lloyd Swanton and pianist/keyboardist Chris Abrahams in a vertiginous 44 minute dark excursion punctuated by cliff hanging moments through homemade instruments and unusual textures.

Judson Trio (Joelle Leandre / Mat Maneri / Gerald Cleaver): An Air of Unreality [VINYL]
Judson Trio (Joelle Leandre / Mat Maneri / Gerald Cleaver):
An Air of Unreality [VINYL]

(RogueArt -- France )


Price: $19.95    




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A live performance at Judson Church in Manhattan as part of the 20th Vision Festival from the NY/France free improvising trio of Joelle Leandre on double bass, Mat Maneri on viola, and Gerald Cleaver on drums and percussion, two tracks of steadily building, incredibly compatible dialog.

Transit (Arnal / Misterka / Radding / Wooley): Transit
Transit (Arnal / Misterka / Radding / Wooley):
Transit

(Clean Feed -- Portugal )


Price: $13.95    




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Necks, The: Body
Necks, The:
Body

(Northern Spy -- USA )


Price: $14.95    




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A strong start to the Australian trio The Neck's 24th album, as Chris Abrahams on piano & keyboards, Tony Buck on drums, percussion & guitar, and Lloyd Swanton on acoustic bass present a powerhouse of free improvisation in a single hour-long work, the first half evoking jazz leaning, with a free and spacious bridge that builds suddenly to a rocking groove.

Buck, Tony / Massimo Pupillo: Time Being [VINYL]
Buck, Tony / Massimo Pupillo:
Time Being [VINYL]

(Trost Records -- Austria )


Price: $22.95    




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Italian composer and bass-player Massimo Pupillo (ZU) and Australian drummer Tony Buck (The Necks) collaborate in a beautifully haunting, absorbing ambient set, taking in electronic abstraction and free improvisation, released in two distinct editions--"Time Being" on vinyl LP and "Unseen" on compact disc, each with two different improvisations.

Buck, Tony / Massimo Pupillo: Unseen
Buck, Tony / Massimo Pupillo:
Unseen

(Trost Records -- Austria )


Price: $16.95    




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Italian composer and bass-player Massimo Pupillo (ZU) and Australian drummer Tony Buck (The Necks) collaborate in a beautifully haunting, absorbing ambient set, taking in electronic abstraction and free improvisation, released in two distinct editions--"Time Being" on vinyl LP and "Unseen" on compact disc, each with two different improvisations.

Necks, The: Three
Necks, The:
Three

(Northern Spy -- USA )


Price: $15.95    




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Three extended improvisations from the three Australian improvisers Chris Abrahams (piano), Lloyd Swanton (bass), Tony Buck (drums/percussion) in their 21st album of mesmerizing music, from the dynamic opener "Bloom" to the introspective "Lovelock" dedicated to Damien Lovelock of The Celibate Rifles, ending in the lyrical and rich groove of "Further".

Cremaster / Komora A: split [7-inch VINYL] <i>[Used Item]</i>
Cremaster / Komora A:
split [7-inch VINYL] [Used Item]

(Monotype -- Poland )


Price: $11.66    




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A split 7" release between Cremaster (Alfredo Costa Monteiro (electronics) and Ferran Fages (feedback mixing board and electroacoustic devices); and the Komora A trio of Karol Koszniec (electronics), Dominik Kowalczyk (laptop) and Jakub Mikolajczyk (modular synth).

Abrahams, Chris: Thrown (15th Anniversary Edition)
Abrahams, Chris:
Thrown (15th Anniversary Edition)

(Room40 -- Australia )


Price: $12.99    




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Reissuing The Necks' pianist Chris Abrahams' 2004 solo album, a unique set of recordings that reflects both on his improvisational life and his explorative nature, recorded using a Positive Organ, Forte Piano, DX 7 and an acoustic piano, each piece evoking distinct sonic environments and approaches to playing and compositions that makes sense in the overall presentation.

Necks, The: Mindset [VINYL]
Necks, The:
Mindset [VINYL]

(ReR Vinyl -- UK )


Price: $23.95    




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The Necks 16th release layers polyrhythmic material to form seething blocks of sound, in two long pieces, one more stripped back to the live trio, the other featuring multiple strata of swirling Hammonds, noise-guitar and electronics.

Abrahams, Chris / Clare Cooper: Germ Studies For Guzheng & DX7
Abrahams, Chris / Clare Cooper:
Germ Studies For Guzheng & DX7

(Splitrec -- Australia )


Price: $18.00    




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The Australian duo of pianist Chris Abrahams (Necks) & Berlin harpist Clare Cooper in a series of 198 short improvisations performed on Yamaha DX7 and the 14th century Guzheng harp, presented with 198 illustrations in an unusual and obsessively rewarding project.

Necks, The: Vertigo [VINYL]
Necks, The:
Vertigo [VINYL]

(ReR Vinyl -- UK )


Price: $26.95    




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Reissuing The Necks 18th album, finding the Australian trio of drummer/percussionist Tony Buck, bassist Lloyd Swanton and pianist/keyboardist Chris Abrahams in a vertiginous 44 minute dark excursion punctuated by cliff hanging moments through homemade instruments and unusual textures, one of the darker and more cathartic albums from The Necks large discography.

Rose, Jon / Chris Abrahams: Peggy
Rose, Jon / Chris Abrahams:
Peggy

(Recommended Records -- UK )


Price: $15.95    




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"As Frogworth says in one review: 'Two giants of Australian avant-garde music getting together here, dedicating their record to Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, whose house in Paddington, Sydney is used for residencies/sabbatic...

Necks, The: The Boys
Necks, The:
The Boys

(Recommended Records -- Great Britain )


Price: $15.95    




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Necks, The: Townsville
Necks, The:
Townsville

(Recommended Records -- USA )


Price: $15.95    




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A long, lovely and flowing improvisation from the Necks in a 54 minute live recording recorded in Townsville, Northern Queensland in February, 2007.

Regenorchester XII: Relics
Regenorchester XII:
Relics

(Trost Records -- Austria )


Price: $16.95    




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Franz Hautzinger formed the orchestra in 1995 as an ensemble for experimental music, developing into an advanced improvising band that incorporates a shifting and diverse set of styles, heard here at Klangspuren Festival in 2019 with Hautzinger on trumpet, Christian Fennesz on guitar & laptop, Otomo Yoshihide on guitar & turntables, Luc Ex on bass, and Tony Buck on drums.

Necks, The: Mindset
Necks, The:
Mindset

(Recommended Records -- Great Britain )


Price: $15.95    




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The Necks 16th release layers polyrhythmic material to form seething blocks of sound, in two long pieces, one more stripped back to the live trio, the other featuring multiple strata of swirling Hammonds, noise-guitar and electronics.

Necks, The: Silverwater
Necks, The:
Silverwater

(Recommended Records -- USA )


Price: $15.95    




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The trio of Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton & Tony Buck in their first release in 4 years, named for an industrial suburb, a bleak and beautifully building affair in The Necks tradition.

Abrahams, Chris: Follower [VINYL]
Abrahams, Chris:
Follower [VINYL]

(Room40 -- Australia )


Price: $28.95    




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A diverse album of compositional work from Australian pianist and The Necks legend Chris Abrahams, in two works of rich ambience and spacious soundscape performed on acoustic and electric pianos, organ, detuned bells and acousmatic sources, contrasted with two more capricious works on acoustic piano, unusual percussive platforms, haunting tones and moody interjections.

Spence, Alister / Tony Buck: Mythographer
Spence, Alister / Tony Buck:
Mythographer

(Alister Spence Music -- Australia )


Price: $15.95    




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Stepping away from the Australian trio The Necks, drummer/percussionist Tony Buck meets pianist Alister Spence in the studio for seven distinct dialogs of "submerged rhythm, oblique extended forms, entwined interplay, and sound for its own sake", Spence at times using preparations on his strings, as both listen and respond deeply through a congenial approach to playing.

Necks, The: Travel
Necks, The:
Travel

(Northern Spy -- USA )


Price: $16.95    




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Starting each day in the Australian studio with a 20-minute improvisation, The Necks trio of Chris Abrahams on piano & keyboards, Tony Buck on drums and Lloyd Swanton on bass developed this, their 21st album, as a collection of "shorter" and varied improvisations, released with minimal overdubs to present their music closer to their exceptional live performances.

Necks, The: Travel [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]
Necks, The:
Travel [VINYL + DOWNLOAD]

(Northern Spy -- USA )


Price: $34.95    




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Starting each day in the Australian studio with a 20-minute improvisation, The Necks trio of Chris Abrahams on piano & keyboards, Tony Buck on drums and Lloyd Swanton on bass developed this, their 21st album, as a collection of "shorter" and varied improvisations, released with minimal overdubs to present their music closer to their exceptional live performances.

Nagano, Sana (w/ Apflebaum / Matsuno / Filiano / Herternstein): Smashing Humans [VINYL]
Nagano, Sana (w/ Apflebaum / Matsuno / Filiano / Herternstein):
Smashing Humans [VINYL]

(577 Records -- USA )


Price: $18.99    




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The debut of a new electric jazz quintet from NY violinist Sana Nagano, with Peter Appfelbaum on tenor saxophone & megaphone, Keisuke Matsuno on electric guitar, Ken Filiano on acoustic bass & effects, and Joe Hertenstein on drums, an inventive and energetic album of joyful urgency and tremendous group dynamic, fueled by Nagano's exuberant and lyrical compositions.

Rupp / Muller / Fischerlehner: TAM
Rupp / Muller / Fischerlehner:
TAM

(Not Applicable -- Great Britain )


Price: $13.95    




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Free improvisation from the German trio of Olaf Rupp (electric guitar), Matthias Muller (trombone), and Rudi Fischerlehner (drums), evolving pieces of intuitive music that plays below and above the surface in murky musics or confident collective improvisation.

Abrahams, Chris / Mark Wastell: A Thousand Sacred Steps
Abrahams, Chris / Mark Wastell:
A Thousand Sacred Steps

(Confront -- UK )


Price: $6.00    




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Drenched in beautiful ambiance, this inspired and spiritual meeting between Necks pianist Chris Abrahams and percussionist Mark Wastell performing on tam-tam and cymbals, was recorded while The Necks were in residence at Cafe Oto in London, the empathy between the two immediately evident in their graceful approach to these four evolving improvisations.

Buck, Tony / Mark Nauseef: Mongrels
Buck, Tony / Mark Nauseef:
Mongrels

(Relative Pitch -- USA )


Price: $13.95    




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Using a wide assortment of guitars (electric, baritone, arch top acoustic, bass) + monochord, waterphone & zulu bells, Necks drummer and multi-instrumentalist Tony Buck joins with percussionist Mark Nauseef performing on bells and gongs for seven exotic improvisations rich in overtones, microtonal movement, ringing harmonics and hybrid motion.

Butcher, John / Magda Mayas / Tony Buck : Glints [VINYL]
Butcher, John / Magda Mayas / Tony Buck :
Glints [VINYL]

(NI-VU-NI-CONNU -- Luxembourg )


Price: $34.95    




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The 5th of NI-VU-NI-CONNU's 5-LP John Butcher series and part of a 2 night residency at ausland in Berlin coinciding with his 65th birthday, tenor & soprano saxophonist John Butcher is joined by the long-running duo Spill of pianist Magda Mayas and drummer Tony Buck (The Necks) for two extended works of evolving, absorbing introspection and eruption.



Best Sellers in This Category:

Necks, The: Travel

Spence, Alister / Tony Buck: Mythographer

Rose, Jon / Chris Abrahams: Peggy

Buck, Tony / Mark Nauseef: Mongrels

Mayas / Buck: gold

Bosetti, Alessandro / Chris Abrahams: A Heart That Responds From Schooling

Phillips, Simon James : Blage 3

Regenorchester XII: Relics

Necks, The: Silverwater

Necks, The: Mosquito / See Through

Abrahams, Chris: Follower [VINYL]

Butcher, John / Magda Mayas / Tony Buck : Glints [VINYL]

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