"Recording the Dissenting Voices confirmed the extent of their divergence from The Future That Never Was. Music always has something to do with the sonic architecture of instruments, but it is also about the fantasy with which musicians...

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""In medieval chant, music seems to have come from elsewhere. It is the angels that are singing, they said, like gourds hung up for purple martins. By the time notation started coming around, hundreds of chants were already hundreds of ...

"Segaki is the second album of the Norwegian-Malaysian trio Hungry Ghosts, consisting of Malaysian tenor saxophonist Yong Yandsen accompanied by the Norwegian powerhouse duo of Christian Meaas Svendsen on double bass and Paal Nilssen-Lo...

"Beauty No Beauty is the debut of Andreas Wildhagen's Spiralis quartet. The lineup features Kasper Vaernes on alto and soprano saxophones, Anja Lauvdal on piano and synth, Adrian Myhr on bass and Andreas Wildhagen on drums and compositi...

rilled to present ükya, the first band ever on our label which does not feature any member from Nakama! Ah, how we delight in the smell, taste and - not least - sounds of fresh blood! Jokes aside - we still consider them family, as two...

"Body of Sound, Body of Music is Norwegian bass player Christian Meaas Svendsen's second solo bass album. The entirety of the recording is based around a framework which Christian calls bass, body, bows: An ongoing introspection in how h...

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"Sacrum Profanum is the follow-up to Akmee's first album Neptun (2018), and releaseas as CD, LP and digital download. All members of the band contributed with compositions for this recording session which was done in Toyen Kirke, a chur...

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"When everything was ready the trio played four tracks in a row, all in one breath" recalls Veschi. There was no need to record many takes for each piece. Everything went for the best. The trio played for pieces that Rivers baptized wit...

"Sorry For Laughing is a project by Gordon H. Whitlow who is also a member of legendary US avantgarde collective Biota, formerly Mnemonists or Mnemonist Orchestra. Their music is a mixture of modern classical, experimental sounds, noise...

"An assignment: find the titles of Rob Mazurek's records and the names of his bands. Put them in a line. Now tell me he's not a poet. Mazurek is a bona fide polymath. He thinks in multiple media. One modality bleeds into another, the mu...

"In addition to the rhythmic reliability and flexibility expected of an excellent "jazz drummer", a dose of fantasy added an unexpected dimension. A poetic irrationality coiled in a functional gesture... ...This recording was made spont...

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All sounds recorded by Joe Fowler (Abrasion Addict) and Bohr Ernst (Animal Machine).

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"Two wind players from Belgium who have been involved in free improvisation for many years: Jean-Jacques Duerinckx on sopranino and baritone saxophones and Jacques Foschia on bass, E-flat and high B-flat clarinets, often met in joint co...

"Starting the month again with an album from Ernesto Rodrigues, Genius Loci - recorded in Lisbon just this past March - continues his post-Cage explorations, now involving a quintet featuring (instead of Carlos Santos, per recent entries......

Happening to continue with the next release pairing Ernesto Rodrigues and Carlos Santos, A Glimpse to an end of a Cycle - recorded in Lisbon this January, so the first actual 2025 recording featured here - involves a similar sort of "op...

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"An unusual encounter, on October 20th, 2024, in Hanover: Andreas Gogol from Berlin with electric guitar, electronics, and vocals, his NaabtalDeath buddy as a zither torturer, and Guilherme R. on cello. Ernesto, his father, traveled ...

"The idea for Homestead came in 2023 during my time as Artist in Residence at Homestead National Historical Park in Beatrice, Nebraska, in whose archives I found the materials referenced in the titles of the movements, as well as the im...

"Barely perceptible, tiny, almost incidental gestures are notated with the utmost precision, so that fractions of a second are divided and shaped into a multitude of pitches, superimposed rhythms, dynamic progressions, melodic figures, ...

"The contemplative 43-minute work unfolds leisurely, basking in deliciously thick, churning harmonies that float, coalesce, and pull apart time and time again. The ensemble's unusual instrumentation fits the music beautifully, with the ...

'mine but for its sublimation' is about resonance, register, and touch. It is about where we lead ourselves when we trust ourselves. It is experiencing trust as a chain of clearings, a sequence of becomings, openings, centerings. It is ...

""There is something quite ephemeral and special about the prepared piano - it's mostly to do with how every instrument responds differently to these treatments but also that it's not very exact, even if, in the case of Cage, is quite p...

"Setting the stage for The Zebra Paradox requires building anticipation and intrigue on the inside of the listener before they even hear the first notes. To accomplish this an imagined transference of information must bloom like a deep ...

"The essence of conviviality. You take a punch, soft as a sock at the end of a jog, but that isn't the real point here. Even poorly brewed fuel can become a cherished experience when shared in good company, highlighting that at its core...

"Vents is seemingly a musical wind trio - humans playing with flutes, airdrums, bubbles... Although, in each set-up, material has its own vitality.

Jim's lungs and lips cut air across edges, generating tones - primordial fluti...

"An instrument constellation that holds infinite potential for sonic clashes and explorations, Bloomers explore the aesthetics of chamber music in a condensed, improvised and naked expression, within vast worlds of harmonies and sounds....

"Here, the obstinate metamorphoses of the keyboard call forth the monstrous organicity of the glowing steel in the instrument's belly. Despite the modernity of its very conception, the work reveals itself like a private photo album, a ...

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"Metal Chaos Ensemble was formed in early 2015 by PEK and Yuri Zbitnov as a working project to explore chaotic rhythms on metallic instruments. I had started to amass the Evil Clown Arsenal of percussion, electronic and wind instruments and...

"Leap of Faith is the core duet of the Leap of Faith Orchestra (LOFO) comprised of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice. The ensemble is based in Boston and dates back to...

"Leap of Faith is the core duet of the Leap of Faith Orchestra (LOFO) comprised of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice. The ensemble is based in Boston and dates back to...

"As is often the case as a new ensemble develops over time, the original scope of intent is deepened and broadened. An Evil Clown session that is assigned to Expanse really is a set with Michael and me and others where it is not Leap of...

"Objections to Realism is the third Evil Clown session in a row to be credited to Turbulence. The previous session from a week ago, Golden Ratio, was originally going to be Leap of Faith which is the original Evil Clown band featuring c...

"I formed Turbulence in 2015 as I started to assemble players for the Leap of Faith Orchestra. Turbulence, the extended horn section for the Orchestra (along with guests on other instruments), also records and performs as an independent...

"Simulacrum is an offshoot of Metal Chaos Ensemble that was conceived just prior to the Virus shutting things down. The ensemble has generally featured 3 core members PEK on all my stuff, Eric Woods on analog synth, and Bob Moores on sp...

"Every once in a while, a new ensemble gets started at Evil Clown. Sometimes the new unit has a particular aesthetic problem and an appropriate band name assigned defined in advance. For example, Metal Chaos Ensemble started as a duet b...

"Leap of Faith is the core duet of the Leap of Faith Orchestra (LOFO) comprised of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, clarinets and flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic and voice. The ensemble is based in Boston and dates back to the...

"In May of 2021, I opened Evil Clown Headquarters to other fully vaccinated musicians, and the first session of the new age was scheduled for the second set of the Expanse sound world. Michael and I both enjoyed the auspicious first set...

"In May of 2021, I opened Evil Clown Headquarters to other fully vaccinated musicians, and the first session of the new age was scheduled for the second set of the Expanse sound world. Michael and I both enjoyed the auspicious first set rig...

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"Whenever I see a train with graffiti on it I try to film it. To make these videos a bit more interesting I created a bit of music to go with them. I never expected these tracks to make it onto a physical media they were quickly made al...

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"It's the best cover I have seen in some time. The musicians are T. Mikawa (electronics), Jun Numata (guitar and electronics) and Martin Escalante (saxophone), so it spells MNE, which sounds like NME, the New Musical Express, one of the...

"The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics. If the operations are needed, the inevitability of infec...

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Recording in the studio in Milan, the trio of Riccardo Luppi on tenor & soprano saxophones and flutes, Simone Massaron on guitar & electronics, and Daniel Studer on double bass engage in a textural and exploratory dialogue, blending extended techniques, electronic manipulations, and spontaneous interplay across seven distinct ""Takes", each offering a unique approach to collective free improvisation.